Heart and Science

by Wilkie Collins

Book Overview

Heart and Science is a classic medical fiction/medical ethics text by Wilklie Collins and is a venerable anti-vivisection novel. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551111241
• ISBN13: 9781551111247
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Great Read

Collins's book is very interesting--it's the story, by the inventor of the detective novel, of a tall, evil neurologist driven by the frantic pace of science to disect living, screaming animals in his search for a cure for brain disease. And the Broadview edition is excellent--it provides the primary texts of the vivisection debate of the 1870s and 80s, including Francis Power Cobbe's essay and documentation of the court case. Excellent scholarly work made available and accessible to beginners--I've used the novel in a course on Literature and Science with great success.

Steve Farmer presents a strong edition of Heart and Science

Heart and Science is a very interesting novel, both for it's historical connection to late-Victorian anti-vivisectionist movement and for Collins's interesting story. I won't say it is one of his strongest novels but it is quite readable and nicely intriguing.Farmer's edition is quite strong.His notes and appendicies are thorough and extremely useful, as are the introduction, the select bibliography,and the other accompanying material, of which there is plenty.