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   

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   

《孟子外书》考述     

张荷群 《临沧师范高等专科学校学报》2006,(4)

《孟子外书》题为孟子所著,但其真实性却值得怀疑。从目录学、作者以及先秦时期著作体列等角度进行了考证,以期对其性质、价值作一个理智合理的判断。  相似文献   

《淮南子》易学思想简论     

高新民 《陕西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2002,31(1):19-23

从宇宙生成论、天人关系论、发展变化论等方面分析 ,《淮南子》具有浓厚的易学思想。它对易学的推衍以及以“易”论理 ,推动了易学在汉代的发展 ,从而确定了《淮南子》在中国古代易学发展史上的重要地位  相似文献   

平凡的人 平凡的事——在南洋职业技术学院的演讲(摘要)     

陈茂胜 《无锡南洋学院学报》2006,(2)

本人是鼋头渚风景区的园林职工,通过《平凡的人平凡的事》的讲演,汇报本人的生活经历和感触,谈对莘莘学子们的勉励和期望。  相似文献   

服务国际赠书工作15年   总被引：11，自引：1，他引：10  

王雪凤  崔茂生 《大学图书馆学报》2002,20(2):61-62

介绍了自1986年以来,青岛海洋大学图书馆承担国际赠书接转工作,为国内高校图书馆和教学科研人员服务的情况。  相似文献   

关于信息与信息科学——《信息科学》评介     

汪冰 《中国图书馆学报》2008,34(4)

美国学者David Luenberger的《信息科学》一书是21世纪初一部重要的信息科学著作。全书共5大部分22章,装帧考究、内容丰富、结构严谨。全书的总体框架与结构基于信息的5个"E":Entropy(熵)、Economics(经济学)、Encryption(加密)、Extraction(抽取)、Emission(发射)。这5个"E"不仅是本书5大部分的标题,而且在各自属下的章节中得到发挥和展开。本书存在对信息检索论述过于简单,对信息用户的关注不足等缺点。  相似文献   

一部非应时的古代目录学研究力作-评傅荣贤先生的《<汉书·艺文志>研究源流考》     

徐建华 《大学图书馆学报》2008,26(1):104-106,55

《汉书·艺文志》是中国古代目录学史上最重要的目录之一,受到了历代目录学研究者的重视。然而,近两千年来,有关《汉书·艺文志》自身的研究,却付之阙如,形成一个学术空白。傅荣贤先生的《〈汉书·艺文志〉研究源流考》将古今有关《汉书·艺文志》的研究归纳为四个流派,极有见地,但也存在着一些不足,给予了评论。  相似文献   

新形势下高校图书馆采访工作新策略   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

文晓梅 《江西图书馆学刊》2006,36(2):44-46

分析了在高等教育深化改革的新形势下高校图书馆采访工作所面临的网络带来的影响和高等教育提出的新要求,阐述了采访工作在建立采访信息系统、拓宽采访渠道和提高采访人员素质等方面所应采取的策略。  相似文献