The following web sites provide additional information linked to the topics in the SATIS Revisited unit animal research.

National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (National Centre for the 3Rs)
http://www.nc3rs.org.uk

Coalition for Medical Progress
http://www.medicalprogress.org/

Animal Research and Human Medicine from ABPI
http://www.abpi.org.uk/Details.asp?ProductID=267

The Ethical Emporium – web site offering resources for teaching ethics in the classroom: http://www.windfalldigital.com/ethicalemporium/

BEEP – web site supporting the teaching of ethics in Biology courses: http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/15.0.html

Website for Science for Public Understanding – resources mainly for A/AS level
http://www.scpub.org/

Government website with summary of position on animal testing
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/science-research/animal-testing/?version=1

Nuffield Council on Bioethics – pdf. report on ‘Ethics of animal research’
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/fileLibrary/pdf/NuffShortReport.pdf

Activities to help teach about animal research
http://www.citizenship.org.uk/resources/activities,1297,NA.html

For a list of arguments from a ‘biomedical’ and ‘animal rights’ view
http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/396.0.html

For a way to show the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ using concept mapping
http://www.beep.ac.uk/content/280.0.html

RDS  – website about animal research in medicine (supports animal research). See data in ‘animal research facts’ – ‘numbers of animals’ showing numbers of animal experiments and procedures over recent years from 1960.
See myths and fact section for some useful arguments
http://www.rds-online.org.uk/

AMRIC (Animals in Medicines Research Information Centre) –questions and answers about animal research and publications to download / order
http://www.abpi.org.uk/amric/QandA.asp

National Economics Foundation – Democs website resources for teaching about animal experimentation
Animal Experimentation cards for KS3 present many arguments in more detail
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/democsae.aspx

Article from the BA on animal research and link to MORI poll
http://www.the-ba.net/the-ba/News/ReportsandPublications/ScienceAndPublicAffairs/ SPAArchive/SPAMarch07/SoundingOffMarch07.htm

Government report on costs/benefits of animal research
http://www.apc.gov.uk/reference/costbenefit.pdf

Data on animal research
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/biomed/faq.shtml

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