Why Dissection?: Animal Use in Education

by Lynette A. Hart, Benjamin L. Hart, Mary W. Wood

Why do students continue to dissect animals in biology classes? Why, despite the excellence of teaching resources for veterinary and human medical education that substitute for dissection, do those provided for pre-college students fall short in convenience, flexibility, and coordination with the curriculum? Why Dissection? Animal Use in Education looks beyond the typical yes-or-no debate about dissection to understand how we came to our current practice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313323909
• ISBN13: 9780313323904
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.3"