Covid-19: Emerging Considerations for Body Sourcing and Handling. A Perspective View from Nigeria     

Izuchukwu Azuka Okafor  Terkuma Chia 《Anatomical sciences education》2021,14(2):154-162

The current Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has spread to about 220 countries of the world and has resulted in a significant number of deaths globally. Infections are still on the rise, and the impact on the global death rate could be devastating. There are fears over the likely impact of a large number of deaths on body sourcing and handling of cadavers for teaching and research. Historically, epidemics come with several challenges and have often led to some level of negligence of ethical practices and health and safety regulations associated with body sourcing and handling. The authors highlighted some emerging problems in this article, focusing on Africa and Nigeria in particular. These problems include a higher risk of coronavirus exposure for body handlers, shortage of cadavers for teaching and learning, a lack of standard regulations leading to unethical body sourcing and handling, and a lack of monitoring and collaboration needed for a well-coordinated Covid-19 pandemic response strategy. If these issues are ignored, the previous gains made in anatomical ethical practices may be destroyed. Some useful recommendations for policymaking geared toward prevention or curtailing these emerging issues have been instilled in this article.  相似文献   

The Unintentional Effects on Body Donation Programs of a Competency-Based Curriculum in Postgraduate Medical Education     

Geoffroy P.J.C. Noël  Joseph Dubé  Gabriel Venne 《Anatomical sciences education》2021,14(5):675-681

As medical programs place increasing importance on competency-based training and surgical simulations for residents, anatomy laboratories, and body donation programs find themselves in a position of adapting to changing demands. To better assess the demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens and evaluate the possible impacts that competency-based medical education could have upon the body donation program of McGill University, Canada, the authors tracked, over the course of the last 10 years, the number of soft-embalmed specimens, along with the number of teaching sessions and the residents enrolled in competency-based programs that are using cadaveric material. The results reveal that the number of soft-embalmed specimens used within residency training increased from 5 in 2009 to 35 in 2019, representing an increase from 6% of bodies to 36.5% of the total number of body donors embalmed in this institution. Correspondingly, the number of annual teaching sessions for residents increased from 19 in 2012 to 116 in 2019. These increases in teaching are correlated with increasing number of residents enrolled in competency-based programs over the last 3 years (Pearson r ranging from 0.9705 to 0.9903, and R² ranging from 0.9418 to 0.9808). Those results suggest that the new skill-centered curricula which require residents to perform specific tasks within realistic settings, exhibit a growing demand for “life-like” cadaveric specimens. Institutions’ body donation programs must, therefore, adapt to those greater need for cadaveric specimens, which presents many challenges, ranging from the logistical to the ethical.  相似文献   

Between Policy and Practice: Archival Descriptions,Digital Returns and a Place for Coalescing Narratives     

Sharon Huebner  Stella Marr 《档案与原稿》2019,47(1):113-130

ABSTRACT

The Strathfieldsaye Estate collection at the University of Melbourne Archives is discussed in relation to recognising, protecting and reclaiming Koori (First Peoples of southeast Australia) heritage. The settler collection includes early 1900s photographs of Koori people within two distinct albums – a family album that includes a series of studio portraits of Koori adults and children, and an album depicting Koori families on Ramahyuck Aboriginal Mission Station. In the past, these albums have been defined by, and limited to, traditional archiving practices excluding Koori interpretation, authorship and social context. Restoring Koori ownership and authorship of intangible heritage plays a large part in consolidating ancestor photographs with Koori perspectives of identity and culture.  相似文献   

A Bioethos for Bodies: Respecting a Priceless Resource     

Thomas H. Champney 《Anatomical sciences education》2019,12(4):432-434

The value that willed body donors provide to medical education is priceless. Their precious gift helps to teach anatomy, spatial relationships between morphological structures, anatomical variation, and professionalism to medical students in a way that plastic models, podcasts, and lectures cannot. They are also an important resource for medical research and a wide variety of postgraduate training opportunities. While many body donation programs throughout the world are nonprofit organizations, there are body donation companies in the United States that sell donors for-profit. These “body brokers” have accumulated large profits from this business. It is incongruous that others would profit from such a priceless, freely donated gift. To prevent this incongruity, it is proposed that the international anatomical community develop a normative culture (a bioethos) for body donation programs. This would involve the conscious and systematic development of ethical principles for the day-to-day policies and practices of institutions that collect and use human bodies. With the development of this bioethos, a cultural shift in how donors are treated would occur and, over time, this would become the normal practice. These principles would become fundamental and foundational for the procurement and use of priceless human tissues.  相似文献   

对山西省知识分子体育消费频率、项目与动机调查   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

张凤霞  王满福  王岗 《中国体育科技》2003,39(6):59-61

对山西省知识分子体育消费频率、项目与动机进行调查。调查表明 :山西省知识分子群体体育消费总体消费水平频率较低 ;消费项目以“观看比赛”和“购买服装”消费为主 ;体育消费以追求体育最基本的生物功能为主。  相似文献   

河南省城镇居民体育消费结构分析   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

王勇 《山东体育学院学报》2003,19(2):81-84

采用问卷调查法，对河南省城镇居民体育消费行为进行调查。结果显示，河南省居民体育消费能力低于全国水平，实物性体育消费占主导地位，观赏性体育消费相对滞后，参与性体育消费有快速增长势头。提出发展河南省城镇居民体育消费的对策。  相似文献   

河南省大众体育消费与体育产业化发展的研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

马春建 《武汉体育学院学报》2003,37(5):34-36

体育消费作为体育经济系统的重要组成部分是促进和推动体育产业发展的重要因素，也是整个群众体育发展的重要标志和象征。21世纪是知识经济时代，居民消费生活将发生巨大变化，以追求运动健身和娱乐效果的参与性体育消费，正在向大众化转变，人们用于健身消费的支出逐年增加，而居民消费每增加1％，就可带动GDP增加0．5％。探讨体育消费与体育产业发展规律，为河南经济腾飞提供理论依据。  相似文献   

馆藏文献是人类文明的共同记忆——《中国图书馆员职业道德准则》试行有感   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

王世伟 《中国图书馆学报》2003,29(5)

爱护文献资源是《中国图书馆员职业道德准则》规定的每个馆员应遵守的道德准则。图书馆员应树立馆藏文献是人类文明记忆的理念 ,建立科学管理制度 ,做到片纸不丢。规范职业行为 ,必须具有爱护文献资源的理念和品格。参考文献 3。  相似文献   

新世纪我国老年体育发展的困境与出路   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

李忠梅 《体育成人教育学刊》2003,19(3):19-20

通过对新世纪我国老年体育发展所面临的主要困境与产生困境的社会背景进行分析和讨论，指出应加大政府宏观指导的力度、完善老年体育管理体制，注重老年体育消费市场的开发，加大老年体育专业指导人员的培养力度，拓宽筹集老年体育活动资金的渠道，丰富老年体育活动内容等。  相似文献   

21世纪初我国体育健身消费市场的形成与可持续发展   总被引：18，自引：2，他引：16  

王红英  骆冰 《上海体育学院学报》2001,25(2):15-18

采用文献资料研究方法，对21世纪初我国体育健身消费市场的形成与可持续发展等问题，进行了论述。认为，国家政策的扶植、生活消费水平的提高、体育健身消费的功能等因素，是促进现阶段我国体育健身消费市场形成的有利条件；提出了有利于我国体育健身消费市场可持续发展的对策。  相似文献