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Direct linkAllchin, Douglas – American Biology Teacher, 2005
Computer programs and models are used to express respect for life by not sacrificing any animal but these alternatives might be deeply flawed. Alternatives to dissection are perverse alternatives that tend to preserve the features of inappropriate dissections like destructiveness, reductionism and objectification.
Descriptors: Laboratory Procedures, Animals, Science Instruction, Biology
Zawistowski, Stephen – Humane Innovations and Alternatives in Animal Experimentation: A Notebook, 1990
Described is the author's decision to help a student find alternatives to performing several terminal experiments on animals in a college physiology class. Replacement exercises used for studying the properties of muscle types are described. Details about the difficulties and successes of the entire experience are reported. (KR)
Descriptors: Animals, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
