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"Can students use alternatives and still pursue a successful career in science?"

According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, more than 60 U.S. medical schools rely exclusively on alternatives to animal labs, and medical simulation centers are heralded as the future of medical education. Many vet schools are also integrating advanced computer technology into their classrooms, including three-dimensional dissection computer programs.

Studies from a variety of prestigious journals including the Journal of Medical Education, American Journal of Physiology, and the American Biology Teacher now indicate that students learn as well, and often better, through modern alternatives as they do from traditional dissection.

Many students taking a high school biology class will change career choices when confronted by the prospect of mandatory dissections. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates that girls especially are likely to abandon science if faced with forced dissection. Considering the lack of women in the sciences and the newly emerging field of bioethics as an important and integral part of the biology, can science afford to turn away these socially conscious individuals. (See Keeping Girls and Women in Science)

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Experts in the fields of psychology, medicine and surgery, and veterinary medicine reflect on why and how they have come to be anti-vivisectionists. Their critical thinking builds a powerful case for the wisdom and necessity of ending unethical and scientifically unsound animal experimentation.
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Careers in Science & Medicine

• Animals in Vet/Med Education
  
  
• Keeping Girls and Women in Science

Experts in the fields of psychology, medicine and surgery, and veterinary medicine reflect on why and how they have come to be anti-vivisectionists. Their critical thinking builds a powerful case for the wisdom and necessity of ending unethical and scientifically unsound animal experimentation.

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The State of the Anti-Vivisection Movement in America