‘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
Main Author: | Rachel Douglas-Jones |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh Library
2020-11-01
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Series: | Medicine Anthropology Theory |
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Online Access: | http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/3965 |
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