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Investigating the Status of Whole‐Body Donation Across the United States of America
The FASEB Journal, 2022Cadaveric dissection has been used throughout history to gain a better understanding of human anatomy and to train medical practitioners. Today, these bodies are predominantly sourced through whole‐body donation programs housed by academic institutions ...
Lauren K. Bagian +2 more
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Archives of General Psychiatry, 1973
Because a caller offering to donate her body to the medical school expressed intention to commit suicide we examined the causes of death of persons whose personally donated bodies had been received by the Department of Anatomy over a 3½-year period. The proportion of suicides was greater than expected in a general population of like age.
T A, Flanagan, G E, Murphy
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Because a caller offering to donate her body to the medical school expressed intention to commit suicide we examined the causes of death of persons whose personally donated bodies had been received by the Department of Anatomy over a 3½-year period. The proportion of suicides was greater than expected in a general population of like age.
T A, Flanagan, G E, Murphy
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Anatomical Sciences Education
The American Association for Anatomy recently charged a task force with updating and expanding upon best practices and recommendations for human body donation programs.
J. Balta +6 more
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The American Association for Anatomy recently charged a task force with updating and expanding upon best practices and recommendations for human body donation programs.
J. Balta +6 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education
Human dissection is an ancient pedagogical method that is still relevant in modern anatomy curricula. The body procurement process for dissection purposes has undergone significant evolution from the medieval era until now, whereby body donation has ...
Siti Nurma Hanim Hadie +4 more
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Human dissection is an ancient pedagogical method that is still relevant in modern anatomy curricula. The body procurement process for dissection purposes has undergone significant evolution from the medieval era until now, whereby body donation has ...
Siti Nurma Hanim Hadie +4 more
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Whole body donation for teaching in Ghana: The perspectives of medical doctors
Anatomical Sciences EducationHistorically, both donated bodies and unclaimed bodies have been the sources of human bodies for anatomy dissection globally with the latter discouraged for ethical reasons.
Benjamin Arko-Boham +5 more
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Motivations for Whole Body Donation
Practicing Anthropology, 2019Abstract While death is a biological surety, how bodies are dealt with after death is largely cultural. In the United States, the most normative funerary practices are burial and cremation. Whole body donation to research facilities—including anthropological research centers—is much less common.
Hilary Martinez, Emily K. Brunson
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Annals of Anatomy
BACKGROUND Body donation is integral to anatomy education, but procurement can be ethically fraught. While voluntary donation is preferred, the use of unclaimed bodies, although considered unethical, is a primary means for body procurement in some ...
Phillipa Marima +3 more
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BACKGROUND Body donation is integral to anatomy education, but procurement can be ethically fraught. While voluntary donation is preferred, the use of unclaimed bodies, although considered unethical, is a primary means for body procurement in some ...
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Ethical Considerations of Body Donation
2020Dead human bodies not only teach students the structure and function of the human form but also provide a rich environment for other learning experiences, including ethical and professional development. Ethical questions especially arise from the procurement and use of bodies in anatomy.
Sabine Hildebrandt, Thomas H. Champney
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Annals of Anatomy
BACKGROUND Body donation is a predominant mode of body sourcing in many countries including South Africa; however, it continues to be limited among the different ethnic groups in the Black African population of South Africa which have been observed to be
Matome N Matshipi, B. Z. De Gama
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BACKGROUND Body donation is a predominant mode of body sourcing in many countries including South Africa; however, it continues to be limited among the different ethnic groups in the Black African population of South Africa which have been observed to be
Matome N Matshipi, B. Z. De Gama
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A critique of whole body gestational donation
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2023In her controversial paper, Anna Smajdor proposes that brain-dead people could be used as gestation units for prospective parents unable or unwilling to undertake the act themselves-what she terms whole body gestational donation (WBGD). She explores the ethical issues of such an idea and, comparing it with traditional organ donation, asserts that such ...
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