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Utilizing medical students' attitudes toward whole body donation in developing a whole body donation program

The FASEB Journal, 2017
INTRODUCTION The Biomedical Sciences department at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine (OUWB) aspires to start a body donation program in association with Oakland University. Understanding OUWB medical students' attitudes towards a whole body donation program and its advertisement will ...
Sara Dykowski, Mohammed Ahmed, Trevor Tooley, Timothy Helland, Malli Barremkala   +4 more
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Body Donation in Italy: An Important Breakthrough with the New Law

Anatomical Sciences Education, 2020
We re-read with interest the article by Professor De Caro and his colleagues from the University of Padova entitled "Promotion of body donation and use of cadavers in anatomical education at the University of Padova" which was published in the Anatomical
F. Maghin, A. Conti
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Weight stigma in body donation programs: Donation criteria analysis

Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference
Medical schools rely on body donation programs to obtain cadavers for teaching anatomy and conducting scientific research. However, many body donation programs utilize strict criteria for donation, including height, amputee status, body weight, or body mass index (BMI). BMI criteria limit medical students’ the familiarity and positive interactions with
Sophie Orr, Soph Myers-Kelley, Heidi Reis, Jenna Hagerty, Kerry Sewell, Maureen Helgren, Rebecca Pearl, Marisa Langton, Malli Barremkala   +8 more
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Running a Body Donation Program

2014
A reduction in the time devoted to dissecting or examining prosections has been reported by many authors. However, the importance of direct dissection in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical/surgical education and training must be stressed. The availability of anatomical material, together with its correct, effective management in education ...
PORZIONATO, ANDREA, MACCHI, VERONICA, STECCO, CARLA, DE CARO, RAFFAELE   +3 more
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[Body donation versus organ donation].

Nederlands tijdschrift voor geneeskunde, 2010
There appears to be a discrepancy between the oversupply of donated bodies 'for science' in anatomical institutions in the Netherlands and the shortage of donated organs. However, organ donation is not as straightforward as it seems, mainly because of its strict conditions, e.g. with respect to age and the required hospital setting of the dying.
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Does Confucianism allow for body donation?

Anatomical Sciences Education, 2018
Confucianism has been widely perceived as a major moral and cultural obstacle to the donation of bodies for anatomical purposes. The rationale for this is the Confucian stress on xiao (filial piety), whereby individuals' bodies are to be intact at death.
D Gareth, Jones, Jing-Bao, Nie
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Body Perception and Organ Donation: Bereaved Parents’ Perspectives

Qualitative Health Research, 2019
The view of the body in sociological, psychological, and gender studies may be broadly summarized to three metaphors: (a) the body as a machine, (b) the body as Self, and (c) the body as sacred and sanctified entity. Each of these philosophical views has an impact on organ donation.
Michal Mahat-Shamir, Yaira Hamama-Raz, Ronit D. Leichtentritt   +2 more
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Live kidney donation as body work

Critical Social Policy, 2014
Financial incentives have increasingly been proposed to remedy what is described as a situation of global ‘organs scarcity’. In this article, I draw on qualitative sociological research investigating the corporeal generosity of living directed and non-directed kidney donors in New Zealand to ask what insights they can offer regarding financial ...
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Anatomical gift guide. Whole body donation

Clinical Anatomy, 1998
by Regina Lee. 143 pp., Atlanta, Georgia: Consumer Education Services, 1997. $21.00. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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[Donation of bodies to science].

Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine, 2002
Teaching and research in anatomy is mainly based on cadaveric dissection. Unclaimed bodies is no more the origin of cadavers, but body donation programs. The dissection is an important part in the anatomical curses of medical students and for anatomical research and special courses devoted to the surgeons. A body donation center was created in Paris in
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