Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Preface 11
4. Introduction 13
5. Part I. Animal Experimentation
6. 1. Animal Experimentation and Ethics in the Early Modern Era 27
7. 2. Christiaan Huygens and Animal Experimentation 37
8. Part II. From Philosophy to Historiography in the Enlightenment
9. 3. The Turkish Spy and Eighteenth-Century British Theriophily 49
10. 4. Rousseau and Animals 63
11. 5. William Smellie and the Enlightenment Critique of Anthropocentrism 71
12. 6. John Gregory and Scottish Enlightenment Views of Animals 89
13. 7. Buffon, Crèvecoeur, and the Limits of Enlightenment Sensitivity to Animal Suffering 105
14. 8. Animals in Enlightenment Historical Literature 113
15. Part III. Art and Economics
16. 9. Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings of Dead Animals and Changing Perceptions of Animals 135
17. 10. Adam Smith and the Economic Consideration of Animals 161
18. 11. From Symbols to Commodities : The Economization of Animals in the Transition to Modernity 173
19. Bibliography 219
20. Index 245