Why dissection?
Subtitle: animal use in education
By: Lynette A. Hart, Mary W. Wood, and Benjamin L. Hart.
Contributors: Wood, Mary W.; Hart, Benjamin L.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780313323904
Subjects: Animal experimentation -- Moral and ethical aspects; Biology -- Study and teaching; Laboratory animals; Dissection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Today's biology classroom crisis; title: Early history of dissection: controversy and advances; title: Controversy in the development of science education and dissection; title: The context for dissection: educational testing; title: National versus state educational standards: whither dissection?; title: Legislation and regulations related to using animals and dissection in teaching; title: Empowering teachers to find substitutes for dissection; title: Students and the culture of dissection; title: The animals used in teaching; title: New teaching resources in the computer age; title: Locating teaching resources and research literature on alternatives.