Have you participated in one? I wonder if anyone has any experience using these virtual dissections and can offer some comparison to the real thing?

I personally understand the need for these simulations but feel that in many cases nothing can substitute for the real thing. I took a anatomy class in high school which I really loved. At the end of the course we got to assist with some real human dissections at a local chiropractic college. I was amazed at how little I knew. I had spent all year virtually learning about the human body through diagrams and animations but it was never so real as looking at the physical tissue.

What do you think?

i like virtual dissections when you actually get to dissect something virtually!!!

i do to, they bascially are amazing ;]

wow, so do i

I think dissection is cool how else are we supposed to learn. and some people want to be vets and scientists. how else are they supposed to improve their career. And besides they weren't killed they died naturaly or were put to sleep to put them out of pain.

they are used to help people understand the parts of people to humans because if they used real humans i don't think that would be so cool-making. i think you are so missing-making.

dissection is not wrong, its a way to study the body, without it we would not know what the human body consisted of, and how similiar such mammals are. Such classification was discovered through dissection. How would we have cured some diseases, how would medicine have become. Dissection helps us understand how the body functions works, through observation. It may seem immoral, but thats science, sometimes. We eat animals, is that wrong? The animals are already dead, there's really no use for them, except for pushing up daisies. So why not! I assume if it was an endangered species than it would be bad, i assume. But there are such things as human dissection, people actually donate thier body for science, so some people don't think its bad. I would understand why you would think dissection is bad, but it really isn't if you look at it in a different perspective. It has its pros and cons, just depends on how you look at it. Morally or scientifically! But i think scientifically has more to offer. Its just my opinion.

to he or her who said it is wrong..... i bet that you want your next sugergy to be done by a doctor with little or no experience....oh the unleaned and young so much for them to learn

"REAL virtual" huh. Sounds like an oxymoron to me (look it up). Check out this link to put together or take apart a virtual frog.

well, the important thing is that your open minded. I personally came here because i need to dissect a fish for school to see if its death had anything to do with the environment and the poluted water it lived in (lake michigan.) by dissecting this fish and identifying if polution played a part in its death, i will be able to tell if the fish (which are eaten by us) could be poluting us. but if you want to continue being ignorant and eat fish that could be poluted with deadly substances, be my guest but i dont want to risk it.

Fish are not always bred to be dissected, many research industries use fish that are already dead for use in the culinary industry, for example when my sixth form students dissect fish they get them from the local fishmongers or supermarket, the moralities of the issue are minimal are they are already dead, we dont kill them just to dissect them.