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   

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   

人口可持续发展的基本点     

王少怡 《贵阳金筑大学学报》2004,(1):11-14

人口包括数量、质量、结构三个因素。从我国人口实际出发，人口可持续发展的基本点是：大力控制人口数量，提高人口素质，调整人口结构，实行以人口数量控制为主，控制、提高、调整相结合，达到适度人口目标。  相似文献   

青少年"上网成瘾症"的原因及对策     

喻兰芳  邓红霞 《湖南大众传媒职业技术学院学报》2004,4(2):77-79

随着互联网的快速发展，青少年“上网成瘾症”成为一个严重的社会问题。从生理和社会心理两方面来分析“上网成瘾症”的成因，并有针对性地提出切实可行的措施和对策，是网络现象研究的重要课题。  相似文献   

美国爱达荷州体育教师标准简介     

陈华卫  潘绍伟 《体育成人教育学刊》2004,20(2):83-85

通过对美国爱达荷州新近颁布的体育教师标准的分析与归纳，阐述了美国基础体育教育人才培养和管理的专业标准以及基础体育教育领域的新思想、新观念，以求对我国在基础体育教育人才培养方面的科学决策和管理有所启示。  相似文献   

人的主体性及其道德思考   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘湘宁 《玉溪师范学院学报》2004,20(2):15-18

人的主体性一直是西方近现代哲学的中心问题 ,也是现代文明的核心内容。人类主体积极、能动的创造性活动推动了人类社会文明发展 ,也带来了一系列的社会问题。人的主体性活动由于本身所具有的局限性 ,必然要受到各种主客观条件的制约 ,其中 ,道德是主体实践活动健康发展的重要条件。道德一方面制约人的行为 ,另一方面激励人们去追求和发展 ,为主体性的发挥提供更广阔的空间  相似文献   

试论从本体论角度研究汉语词汇   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

周光庆 《华中师范大学学报(人文社会科学版)》2002,41(2):46-54

本文以为，鉴于目前的情况，应该提倡从哲学本体论的角度与高度研究汉语词汇，以求在立体的动态的研究中实现理解词语、认识世界、观照人的自我这一新的研究目标。本文上篇以汉语词汇实际为依据总论这一主张的理论依据：作为符号的动物，人是在语言符号的帮助下更好地领悟自己的存在、形成自己的本质的，人是在语言符号的帮助下更好地揭示物理世界、建构文化世界的。本文下篇从汉语词汇研究实际出发分论这一主张的基本思路：首先分别探讨词汇产生、词汇发展、词义结构、词义演变与人的存在方式的固有关系，然后实现以“人”为最高目标的新综合。  相似文献