Resources

Legal and General Classroom Dissection

• Balcombe, Jonathan. The Use of Animals in Higher Education: Problems, Alternatives, and Recommendations. Humane Society Press, Washington, DC, 2001. (download the book free)
• Students' Rights: Conscientious Objection in the Classroom at Animal Rights Law Center
• Student-Choice State Laws, including Illinois's Dissection Alternatives Act
• HSUS: Animals in Education
• Veterinary Schools Offering Student-Choice [PDF]
• Ethics in Medical Education
• HumaneStudent.org
• Hazards and Harms of Dissection
• Learning Without Killing

UIUC

• New! Students' Position Packet
• Update to Position Packet (if you have Acrobat and can merge these two documents please email us
• New! Student Choice Policy on alternatives to dissection in undergraduate courses at UIUC.
• Courses with dissection/vivisection (update pending)

For Teachers

• InterNICHE, has an alternatives loan program, books, videos, etc.
• HSUS Humane Education Loan Program, source of free alternatives
• NAVS Dissection Alternatives Loan Program, source of free alternatives
• Animalearn, source of free alternatives
• Comparative Studies of Dissection and Other Animal Uses
• Cost Analysis of Dissection Versus Nonanimal Teaching Methods
• Virtual Dissections
• Online Frog Dissection
• The Norina Database of Alternatives
• Client-Donated Source of Animals for Education

Press

• UIUC
• 05/06/03--Daily Illini--Urbana-Champaign Senate approves dissection policy
• 02/07/03--Daily Illini--U-C Senate to discuss dissection alternatives
• 11/15/02--Daily Illini--Letter to editor from NAVS
• 09/19/02--Daily Illini--All in favor: ISG votes for dissection alternatives
• 08/29/01--Daily Illini--Students want dissection options
• 09/11/00--Daily Illini--Discontinued experiments change veterinary classes
• 10/16/00--Daily Illini--Students find alternatives to animal dissection
• 06/22/93--Daily Illini--U of I Profs Design Fake Organs for Dissection
• Elsewhere
• 10/02/02--CNN--Students shunning animal dissection ritual
• 11/02--USA TODAY--Labs curtail using live animals

Starting a Student-Choice Campaign

• Knight, Andrew. Learning Without Killing: A Guide to Conscientious Objection. Available online from AVAR
• Presentation created by April Kung to persuade the Biology department at Virginia Commonwealth Univesity to give students the choice to use computer-based alternatives.
• Conscientiously objecting to dissection and vivisection
• Suing for your rights
• Creating a policy