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Humane Alternative Resource Donated to New England Universities

(Boston, MA) Sept. 10, 2003 - The Ethical Science and Education Coalition (ESEC), and its affiliate, the 108 year-old New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) in Boston recently donated copies of the newly published 2nd edition of From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse: Alternative Methods for a Progressive, Humane Education to university libraries in New England.

Published by the International Network for Humane Education (InterNICHE) with the support of NEAVS/ESEC and other organizations, From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse is an invaluable resource for college, medical, and veterinary students and instructors interested in utilizing the hundreds of humane alternatives to animal use in the classroom.

Alternatives analyzed in From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse include tools such as multimedia computer simulation, training mannequins and simulators, and humane approaches such as clinical work with animal patients, and ethically sourced animal cadavers.

From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse features types of alternatives, assessment, and curricular design. Teachers developing and implementing alternatives in their classes wrote up reports for the "Case Study" section. An "Alternative File" section details over 500 of the latest products. Lastly, the "Further Resources" section lists over 800 websites, publications, organizations and other resources.

InterNICHE Coordinator, Nick Jukes, said today, "Recent developments in technology have provided educators with a superb range of cutting-edge alternative methods, with significant advantages over the conventional - but rarely validated - animal dissections and live experimentation.

"Such tools, combined with other humane approaches, have already replaced harmful animal use in many university departments and high schools across the world. From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse provides the information and the arguments to catalyze further curricular transformation, to the benefit of students, teachers, animals and the life sciences."

ESEC and NEAVS volunteers hand-delivered copies of the book to universities including libraries at Emerson College, Suffolk University, MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Boston College. Copies were also sent to universities in Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York.

From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse will soon be available in other languages including: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese.

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