‘Silent mentors’: Donation, education, and bodies in Taiwan

‘Silent mentors’: Donation, education, and bodies in Taiwan

Unlike cadaver donation in the West, which has to a large degree maintained the anonymity of the body used to teach medical students, the Taiwanese Tzu Chi Buddhist Silent Mentor programme at the centre of this article foregrounds the identity of the trai

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Main Author: Rachel Douglas-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2020-11-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
Subjects:
anonymity
buddhism
cadaver donation
detachment
medical pedagogy
taiwan
Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/3965
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buddhism
cadaver donation
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medical pedagogy
taiwan
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