Ethical and Legal Implications of Animal Use in Didactic Situations: The Conceptions of undergraduate Biology and Biomedicine students of a Federal Institution of Higher Education located in the State of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

The use of animals in teaching situations is one of the methods of animal experimentation that has been institutionalized in the scientific context of the eighteenth century, when it was believed that animals had no soul or feel pain. Today, new knowledge about the physiology of animals brought to t...

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Main Authors: Izabel Christina Pitta P. de S. Melgaço, Rosane M. S. Meirelles, Helena Carla Castro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2011-12-01
Series:Investigações em Ensino de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.if.ufrgs.br/ienci/artigos/Artigo_ID267/v16_n2_a2011.pdf