Cat dissection vs. sculpting human structures in clay: an analysis of two approaches to undergraduate human anatomy laboratory education.

@article{Waters2005CatDV,
  title={Cat dissection vs. sculpting human structures in clay: an analysis of two approaches to undergraduate human anatomy laboratory education.},
  author={John R. Waters and Peggy N. Van Meter and William Perrotti and Salvatore Drogo and Richard J. Cyr},
  journal={Advances in physiology education},
  year={2005},
  volume={29 1},
  pages={
          27-34
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28694409}
}
The data indicate that human-clay sculpting may be a viable alternative to cat dissection in an anatomy course in which the students focus on human anatomy.
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