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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
