Sweet Sensation
Humanity, Experimental Medicine and the Philadelphia Animal Cruelty Trial of 1914
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13060302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Boddice (0000-0003-2591-9104, Tampere University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-57 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Emotions History Culture Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2206-7485 • E-ISSN: 2208-522X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/2208522x-bja10061 |
| OpenAlex | W4403701997 |
| Language | EN |
In June 1913, Dr Joshua Sweet, Assistant Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, was charged with ‘unnecessary cruelty to dogs’. Sweet’s trial would take place the following April. My account of that trial, its context and its aftermath, is primarily concerned with the contested experience of ‘humanity’: a nebulous concept that incorporates other-oriented feelings and practices, couched in broader social and moral frameworks. Ultimately, it is an account of the contextual entanglement of humane feelings – emotions and senses – with practices, politics, belief systems, knowledge systems, professional networks, gender and class dynamics and moral/ethical imperatives
Criminology · Cruelty · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Psychoanalysis · Sensation · Theology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |