Editing Vivisection (section)

==== 20th century ====
In the early 20th-century the anti-vivisection movement attracted many female supporters associated with [[women's suffrage]].<ref name="Ross 2014">{{cite journal|author=Ross, Karen|year=2014|title=Winning Women's Votes: Defending Animal Experimentation and Women's Clubs in New York, 1920–1930|journal=New York History|volume=95|issue=1|pages=26–40|doi=10.1353/nyh.2014.0050 }}</ref> The [[American Anti-Vivisection Society]] advocated total abolition of vivisection whilst others such as the [[American Society for the Regulation of Vivisection]] wanted better regulation subjected to surveillance, not full prohibition.<ref name="Ross 2014"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Recarte|first=Claudia Alonso|date=2014|title=The Vivisection Controversy in America|url=https://institutofranklin.net/sites/default/files/2021-03/Vivisection-in-america-Case-Study-DEF.pdf|website=Franklin Institute|language=en-GB|archive-date=March 31, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240331233154/https://institutofranklin.net/sites/default/files/2021-03/Vivisection-in-america-Case-Study-DEF.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Research Defence Society]] made up of an all-male group of physiologists was founded in 1908 to defend vivisection.<ref>Bates, A. W. H. (2017). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513714/ ''The Research Defence Society: Mobilizing the Medical Profession for Materialist Science in the Early-Twentieth Century'']. In Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History. Palgrave Macmillan.</ref> In the 1920s, anti-vivisectionists exerted significant influence over the editorial decisions of medical journals.<ref name="Ross 2014"/>