Body donation – The life after death
Journal Title: MedPulse -International Medical Journal - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Death provides many of us with a one-time chance to make a valuable gift to humanity. ‘Body donation’ is defined as the act of giving one’s body after death for medical education and research. The need for donations is great, and the gift is valued and honoured beyond measure. Despite the importance of body donation for medical education and the advancement of medical science, cadaveric donation remains suboptimal. Dissection classes and research are being aborted in many medical courses because of lack of availability of cadavers. Under Anatomy Act of India, the unclaimed bodies have limitations and mostly they are not useful; and the practice of burial or cremation of corpse is a trend in India. So the only source of cadavers is the donated bodies but there is paucity of awareness regarding the gracious and ideal act of body donation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the willingness and assessment of awareness of the public about the concept of body donation by a questionnaire; analysed and concluded with the ideas that any other media cannot replace the human body dissection and Need of cadaver for anatomy teaching and for research.
Authors and Affiliations
Dope Santoshkumar A, Bhusari Prashant Amanrao, P R Kulkarni, C V Diwan
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