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Conscientious Objection To Harmful Animal Use Within Veterinary And Other Biomedical Education, Andrew Knight
Conscientious Objection To Harmful Animal Use Within Veterinary And Other Biomedical Education, Andrew Knight
Science Education and Alternative Methods Collection
Laboratory classes in which animals are seriously harmed or killed, or which use cadavers or body parts from ethically debatable sources, are controversial within veterinary and other biomedical curricula. Along with the development of more humane teaching methods, this has increasingly led to objections to participation in harmful animal use. Such cases raise a host of issues of importance to universities, including those pertaining to curricular design and course accreditation, and compliance with applicable animal welfare and antidiscrimination legislation. Accordingly, after detailed investigation, some universities have implemented formal policies to guide faculty responses to such cases, and to ensure that …
Dissection: The Scientific Case For Alternatives, Jonathan Balcombe
Dissection: The Scientific Case For Alternatives, Jonathan Balcombe
Experimentation Collection
This article presents the scientific argument that learning methods that replace traditional nonhuman animal-consumptive methods in life science education—so-called alternatives to dissection—are pedagogically sound and probably superior to dissection. This article focuses on the pedagogy, a learning method’s effectiveness for conveying knowledge.