InterNICHE Co-ordinator
Nick Jukes
19 Brookhouse Ave.
Leicester LE2 0JE
England
Tel/Fax +44 116 2109652
coordinator@interniche.org
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From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse
new 2nd edition
Nick Jukes & Mihnea Chiuia (eds)
InterNICHE
To be published soon!
This comprehensive information resource on alternatives is a thoroughly researched, updated and enlarged 2nd edition of the 1997 Alternatives Book from InterNICHE. It details 500 products in over 20 disciplines where harmful animal use is being replaced by modern teaching tools and approaches. The technological developments that have added depth, breadth and facility to learning, and the growing recognition that science and ethics are inseparable, are reflected in this ground-breaking publication.
Contributions by internationally-recognised guest writers address teaching objectives, curricular design, and assessment of alternatives. Other chapters provide case studies of progressive, humane education where alternatives are the norm, practical background information on implementation, support for conscientious objection, and links to further resources.
‘From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse’ is the most up-to-date and comprehensive printed resource on alternatives in education. It is a must-have desk-top reference guide for life science teachers, ethics committees and university libraries. Students and animal campaigners will also find it an invaluable resource.
There is still time to include your products or your recommendations in the new edition - just! Please write to Nick Jukes straight away.
Visit our Alternatives section for more information resources.
Thanks to our sponsors.
Alternatives in Education Video
new approaches for a new millennium
This award-winning 33-minute video gives a comprehensive overview of the use of alternatives in education and features a selection of the best products in use today. Covering nerve and muscle physiology, pharmacology, surgery, anatomy and animal handling, InterNICHE interviews university teachers who have themselves developed or implemented the products in their curriculum. The alternatives are demonstrated by the teachers, and students give their feedback.
Suitable for teachers and students of biological science, veterinary and human medicine, for ethics committees and legislators.
Read the press release from the video’s launch in 1999.
Thanks to our sponsors.
Alternatives in Education has been translated into the following languages:
Croatian, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. It will soon be available in Arabic, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian and Turkish.
It is available in PAL (European format) and NTSC (US format).
To order a copy, please contact the InterNICHE Co-ordinator or the relevant InterNICHE national contact.
The Alternatives in Education video will soon be downloadable from this site
Tuesday 17 August 1999
International launch of new life science video
Alternatives in Education - new approaches for a new millennium
A ground-breaking video featuring state-of-the-art
alternatives to animal experiments is today launched
worldwide by the humane education network EuroNICHE (1).
University teachers who have newly developed or use
multimedia computer software and other products and
approaches (2) demonstrate their efficacy and pedagogic
advantages (3) over traditional harmful animal use (4).
From anatomy to physiology, surgery to pharmacology,
the film samples classical experiments where
conventional animal use has been replaced by a range of
progressive alternative methods. In the current approach
to the new academic year, the 33-minute multi-language
film (5) is being shown and distributed across Europe,
the US, Australia and Japan to teachers and students of
biological science, veterinary and human medicine, and
to ethics committees, legislators and animal protection
groups (6).
Co-ordinator of EuroNICHE, Nick Jukes, said today,
"The life sciences are undergoing a radical change as recent developments in technology offer
new and exciting ways to gain the skills and knowledge required for the professions. Ethical
and financial concerns have also prompted a re-assessment of conventional practice.
'Alternatives' are now becoming the norm."
For cost and distribution, see (7) below.
Notes for editors:
(1). 'Alternatives in Education - new approaches for a new millennium'.
EuroNICHE - the European Network of Individuals and Campaigns for Humane Education - is
a non-profit charitable network of students and teachers with contacts in over 20 European
countries, the US, Australia and Japan. Working with teachers to introduce alternatives to
harmful animal use and with students to support freedom of conscience. A full list of national
contacts is available.
(2). Products featured include computer simulation and learning packages, computer-linked
human self-testing apparatus, waste organ surgical training apparatus, high-resolution video
and a veterinary training model. Full details of the products and producers are available.
Further alternative approaches for practical work requiring animal tissue are covered in the
film with the sourcing and use of 'naturally-dead' or euthanised animals, and clinical practice.
(3). At least 29 published academic studies evaluating the effectiveness of alternative
methods have found that students using alternatives perform at least as well as those using
animals.
(4). Worldwide, tens of millions of animals are killed each year for dissection and harmed
during experimentation within education. Many students face academic and psychological
penalty for objecting to compulsory harmful animal use but recent legislation and legal
challenges have often found in favour of students' rights and the use of alternatives.
(5). The film is currently available in (a number of languages)
(6). It has been shown pre-launch at several national-level scientific conferences and will be
shown at the forthcoming 3rd World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life
Sciences (Bologna, 29 August - 2 September 1999).
(7). Cost - Western Europe: £12 (£8 concessions), Eastern Europe: £6 (£4), US: $20 ($15),
Australia: A$30 ($20), Other: contact EuroNICHE.
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