Whole body gestational donation
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2022 AbstractWhole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to consider donating their whole bodies for gestational purposes just as some people donate parts of their bodies for organ ...
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Posthumous autonomy: Agency and consent in body donation
Philosophical Psychology, 2023 Six people were interviewed about the possibility of becoming posthumous body donors. Interview transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Tom Farsides, Claire F. Smith
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Cultural attitudes towards death practices, the body after death and life after death in deceased organ donation - a UK Polish migrant perspective [PDF]
, 2016 Previous studies have found the perception of the body and death practices can have an influence on perceptions of deceased organ donation. This is the first study in the UK to investigate the views of the Polish migrants, a fast growing community ...
Randhawa, Gurch, Sharp, Chloe
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Analysis of influencing factors of serum total protein and serum calcium content in plasma donors [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background and objectives The adverse effects of plasma donation on the body has lowered the odds of donation. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of abnormal serum calcium and total serum protein related to plasma donation, identify ...
Bin Liu +11 more
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Health-Related Philanthropy: Toward Understanding the Relationship Between the Donation of the Body (and Its Parts) and Traditional Forms of Philanthropic Giving [PDF]
, 2008 The academic study of philanthropy has focused on the public good from private action and includes the study of the public good of improving health and studies of the various determinants of giving.
Meslin, Eric M. +2 more
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Attitudes of medical and allied medical students from Serbia toward whole body donation
Bioscience Journal, 2016 Anatomy, one of the key pre-clinical subjects in medical and allied medical disciplines, has traditionally relied on instruction based on the utilization of cadavers.
Biljana Srdi +2 more
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Trends and Applications of Body Donation Program in Mahakaushal Region
National Journal of Clinical Anatomy, 2020 Introduction: Body donation or body endowment is defined as a desired program of donating one’s body after death for progress of medical research and as a segment of medical education.
Natwar Lal Agrawal +2 more
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Live donor study – implications of kidney donation on cardiovascular risk with a focus on lipid parameters including lipoprotein a [PDF]
, 2016 In this prospective observational cohort study, we evaluate the change in cardiovascular risk parameters, with a focus on lipids, in live kidney donors 1 year post donation. Body mass index, systolic/diastolic blood pressure, kidney function (chromium-51
Doucet, Brian +4 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023 Historically, Anatomy education is an in‐person discipline involving exposure to human body donors that facilitates personal and professional growth through, in part, the initiation of reflection on the topic of death.
Anette Wu +27 more
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The normalisation of body gifting in Taiwan [PDF]
, 2015 The Tzu Chi Foundation has made body gifting, such as body donation, bone marrow donation and cord blood donation, successful in Taiwan. Using Foucault’s theoretical framework of governmentality and normalisation, this article discusses how a Buddhist ...
Chang, Hung-Chieh
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