Andrew Knight videos

Educational Animal Use and Alternatives

Reviews harmful educational animal use in life/health sciences (esp. veterinary education), and alternatives, along with the presenter's personal story as a veterinary student conscientiously objecting to harmful animal use.

Educational animal use and alternatives

April 2025 presentation to the US Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics, on educational animal use and alternatives. Further information: https://humanelearning.info.

Проф. Андрю Найт: Използване на животни с образователни цели и техните алтернативи

Използването на животни е било неразделна част от образованието по дисциплини като хирургия, физиология, биохимия, анатомия, фармакология и паразитология. През последните няколко десетилетия обаче се наблюдава бързо нарастване на наличието на безвредни алтернативи, за които проф. Найт детайлно ще...

Uso de animais na educação e alternativas (Educacional animal use and alternatives) - Andrew Knight

Aula "Uso de animais na educação e alternativas" (Educacional animal use and alternatives) com o professor Andrew Knight Legenda: Caio Licínio Vasconcelos Pantarotto Andrew Knight é Médico-veterinário, especialista em ciência do bem-estar animal, ética e direito. Professor de bem-estar e ética a...

Educational Animal Use Within Europe

Thousands of alternatives to harmful animal use are now available. Why, then, are well over 100,000 animals used annually for educational purposes, within the EU alone? To find the answers, we studied the publicly available summaries of scientific and educational animal use in EU member states. T...

Critically Evaluating Animal Research

Systematic reviews have clearly demonstrated the limited human clinical and toxicological utility of animal experiments. This 50 min. presentation summarises this evidence, and reviews the reasons for the poor human predictivity of animal models. These include inherent differences between humans ...

Educational animal use and alternatives - full presentation

Animal use resulting in harm or death has historically played an integral role in life and health sciences education, in disciplines such as surgery, physiology, biochemistry, anatomy, pharmacology, and parasitology. However, the last few decades have seen a rapid increase in the availability of ...

Creating a Clinical Skills Laboratory for teaching surgical and clinical skills

A Clinical Skills Laboratory (CSL) is important for teaching surgical and medical skills to veterinary and medical students. Our recent article at https://AndrewKnight.info) and summarised here, describes steps and considerations important during the establishment of a successful CSL, based on ou...

Primate research

Should we experiment on non-human primates (NHPs)? A short introduction to the harms and benefits of such research, and a call for greater protection of NHPs. Introduces our article: Carvalho, C., Gaspar, A., Knight, A., and Vicente, L. (2019). Ethical and scientific pitfalls concerning laborator...

Efficacy of Alternatives to Educational Animal Use

Harmful animal use in education and training remains widespread among life and health sciences disciplines. Humane teaching alternatives include ethically-sourced cadavers, models, mannequins, mechanical simulators, videos, computer and virtual reality simulations, and supervised clinical and sur...

Animal Research and Depression

Can animal experiments help cure depression? Unfortunately not, because animal research contributes little to human medical developments in this field. Here, we summarise our studies of the contributions of different forms of research to advances in depression understanding and treatment. Our ful...

Educational Animal Use and Alternatives

Describes the use of animals within life and health sciences education, humane alternatives, and evidence concerning the educational effectiveness of humane teaching methods compared to harmful animal use.

How Useful is Animal Research?

Systematic reviews have clearly demonstrated the limited human clinical and toxicological utility of animal experiments. This presentation briefly summarises this evidence, and reviews the reasons for the poor human predictivity of animal models. These include inherent differences between humans ...

Alternatives to Animal Research

Reviews the 3Rs – the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of laboratory animal use. Key replacement examples include the use of structure-activity relationships and expert systems, cell cultures, the ‘human on a chip’, gene chips, and strategies to increase the predictivity and safety of human ...

Scientific Animal Use

Reviews the numbers of animals used for scientific or educational purposes worldwide, and explores the main drivers of increasing use – greater use of genetically modified animals, and large-scale chemical testing programmes. Covers the most common species used, their sourcing, categories of use,...

Humane Teaching Methods within Veterinary and Biomedical Education by Professor Andrew Knight

This zoom talk was held early morning 25/4/2020 and has been recorded for the benefit of those in Australia and other countries who could not make the talk due to timing issues. In the section where I ask my question, my voice is not recorded but is written in the comments section on the left. ...

Humane Education - caring, not killing

Veterinary students are often faced with the prospect of harming animals in their training to help others. However it doesn't have to be this way. A veterinarian can become qualified in his/her profession without causing harm to others.

'The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments' - book by Andrew Knight

Few ethical issues create as much controversy as invasive experiments on animals. Some scientists claim they are essential for combating major human diseases, or detecting human toxins. Others claim the contrary, backed by thousands of patients harmed by pharmaceuticals developed using animal tes...

Ethical Objections to Animal Experimentation

Produced by Save Animals from Exploitation in New Zealand, as part of their outstanding educational resource booklet, 'Animals in Science: Ethical Arguments and Alternatives to Animal Experiments'. See alsohttps://www.scribd.com/document/157337230/SAFE-Education-Resource-Issue-4-Animals-in-Scienc...

Increasing the implementation of alternatives to invasive animal use within biomedical research

A video presentation I was asked to deliver for the Third European Conference for Critical Animal Studies: Technoscientific Developments and Critical Animal Studies. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. 29 Nov. 2013.

Why Beagles are preferred in animal experiments

Working Together For Change

How can animal researchers and animal protectionists work together to effect positive change?

Non animal methods of research - a more humane and scientifically valid option

Andrew Knight discusses what options exist to replace animals in medical research.

Statistics and Regulation

How widespread is the use of animals in research?

Efficacy - Assessing the utility of animal experiments

Can medical progress continue without the use of animals?

Animal Experiments - a failing science

Dr Andrew Knight looks at the "necessity" of animal use in medical research.

Public hearing - PC 2 - Use of primates and other animals in medical research in NSW - 1 June 2022

Portfolio Committee No. 2 - Health Use of primates and other animals in medical research in New South Wales Please note that absolute privilege does not extend to further distribution of this content. Re-publication may expose you to legal liability if the material is defamatory. You may copy an...

WIST-Kongress - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche

Kurz-Doku zum Kongress "WIST - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche" am 15. Oktober 2016 in Köln, organisiert von Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V. Redner: Andrew Knight, Tierarzt, Professor für Tierschutz und Tierethik, University of Winchester, England Aysha Akhtar, Fachärztin für Neurologie, Präve...

Prof ANDREW KNIGHT - Systematic Reviews of Animal Experiments

Prof. Dr. Andrew Knight, Tierarzt, Professor für Tierschutz und Tierethik, University of Winchester, England Vortrag beim Kongress "WIST - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche" am 15. Oktober 2016 in Köln, organisiert von Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V. Prof Dr Andrew Knight, BSc. (Vet. Biol.), BVMS, ...

Panel Discussion - WIST-Kongress "Science instead of Animal Experiments"

Podiumsdiskussion beim Kongress "WIST - Wissenschaft statt Tierversuche" am 15. Oktober 2016 in Köln, organisiert von Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V. Auf dem Podium: Andrew Knight, Tierarzt, Professor für Tierschutz und Tierethik, University of Winchester, England Aysha Akhtar, Fachärztin für ...

WDAIL - Dr Andrew Knight's Speech

Speech given by Dr Andrew Knight at World Day for Animals in Laboratories, Sat 28th April 2012, Birmingham UK. All the scientific studies Andrew mentions are at www.AnimalExperiments.info Information about his book on animal experiments is at https://www.andrewknight.info/books/animal-research/...