Volume 36, Number 3, February 1990:
Dissection
(Reprint of 1991 issue)


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Originally posted:
March 19, 2003

Date modified: January 6, 2011

Dissection
by John Richard Schrock

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