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Direct linkERIC Number: EJ725849
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Aug
Pages: 5
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"Hands-Off" Dissection?
Allchin, Douglas
American Biology Teacher, v67 n6 p369 Aug 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, Laboratory Experiments, Computer Software, Computer Simulation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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