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KSN
Volume 36
Number 3
February 1990
(Reprint of 1991 issue)
ISSN: 0022-877X

ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- "arguments" voiced by opponents of dissection
- will you have a 'Jenifer'?
- general strategies
- guidelines for good dissections
- the "hammer test"
- wherein lies "meaning"?
- sensory scale
- developing students' powers of observation
- vivisection
- shortcomings of "alternatives"
- palpation
- the modern muscle misconception - a case for reality
- the text and the lab
- lysenko - the case against abstractions
- student blood labs
- what is wrong with the NABT polcy on dissection?
- consequences of eliminating the real experience base
- summary
- further reading
- read this - it concerns your future

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Dissection
by John Richard Schrock


About KSN

Published by EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Prepared and Issued by THE DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Editor: JOHN RICHARD SCHROCK

Editorial Committee: DAVID EDDS, TOM EDDY, GAYLEN NEUFELD

Editors Emeritus: ROBERT BOLES, JOHN BREUKELMAN, ROBERT F. CLARKE

Typist: NANCY GULICK

Circulation and Mailing: ROGER FERGUSON

Printed by: ESU Press

Online edition designed by: TERRI WEAST

The Kansas School Naturalist is sent free of charge and upon request to teachers, school administrators, public and school librarians, youth leaders, conservationists, and others interested in natural history and nature education. In-print back issues are sent free as long as supply lasts. Out-of-print back issues are sent for one dollar photocopy and postage/handling charge per issue. A back issue list is sent free upon request. Address all correspondence to Kansas School Naturalist, Division of Biological Sciences, Box 50, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS 66801-5087. Opinions and perspectives expressed are those of the author(s) and/or editor and do not reflect the official position or endorsement of ESU.

The Kansas School Naturalist is usually published four times during each school year. Editorial Office and Publication Office is at 1200 Commercial Street, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087. Editor: John Richard Schrock, Division of Biological Sciences. Third class postage paid at Emporia, Kansas.

This reprint issue is sent free to biology teachers while supplies last.

The Kansas School Naturalist is sent free by third class mail to U.S. zip codes, first class to Mexico and Canada, and surface mail overseas. Overseas subscribers who wish to receive it by airmail should remit US $5.00 per year (four issues) airmail and handling

Reprints of this issue (with updated references) was made possible through contributions to the Kansas School Naturalist Endowment Account.  The Editorial committee wishes to thank the many readers who have contributed to the KSN fund  over the years.  We have provided a valuable "no frills" publication to teachers, librarians and others free upon request for 37 years.  Contributions to the KSN Endowment Account will allow us to deliver future issues.  If you wish to support the Kansas School Naturalist, please address your contribution to: Kansas School Naturalist Endowment Fund, ESU Foundation, ESU Box 2, Emporia, KS 66801.



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