Animal experiments and bioethics in high schools in Australia, Japan, and New Zealand

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-126

  Tsuzuki, Miho ^a   Asada, Yukiko ^a   Akiyama, Shiro ^a   Macer, Nobuko ^b   Macer, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Eubios Ethics Institute   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Animal experiments; Bioethics; High school

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032361611     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.1998.9655607     Document Type: Article

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