Antivivisection and the charge of zoophil-psychosis in the early twentieth century.

The Historian | January 1, 1993| | Copyright

In 1909, at a time of great controversy over the practice of vivisection, American neurologist Charles Loomis Dana proclaimed heightened concern for animals to be a form of mental illness, which he called "zoophilpsychosis." Advocates of animal experimentation immediately employed Dana's diagnosis in vivisection's defense, claiming that antivivisectionists were afflicted by this malady. This diagnosis, however, reveals more about the minds of the men who supported vivisection than it does about the mental health of their adversaries. When challenged by the lay and predominantly ...

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