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   

普世伦理广告心态刍议     

张殿元 《国际新闻界》2001,(4)

广告的巨大影响使许多事物都带上了重在宣传的“广告心态” ,走出神学院和象牙塔进行普世化的普世伦理也未能免俗。内在逻辑上的填补缺失 ,方法手段上的化繁复为简约 ,社会功能上的灵魂麻醉 ,最终目的上的推销自己的主张 ,作为“沉默的大多数”的普世对象 ,所有这一切都使普世伦理和广告如出一辙 ,而这种将普世伦理等同于广告宣传的做法极易降低人们的思想水平 ,是不可取的。  相似文献   

网络伦理教育—学校德育工作的新领域     

万启常  孙宏云 《湘潭师范学院学报(社会科学版)》2001,23(6):131-134

互联网的飞速发展给当今青少年带来了新的生活方式，也带来了新的伦理问题，从而为学校德育工作带来了新的课题、新的挑战。为促使青少年一代健康成长，必须对其进行网络伦理教育。  相似文献   

浅析兵家武德文化     

陆建林  龚江泳  於世海 《湖北体育科技》2001,20(3):1-2

在继承中华民族传统美德的基础上，研究和开发具有时代价值意义的武德资源，对于发挥武术文化在世界上的影响，为武术真正走向世界都具有重要的意义。  相似文献   

普世伦理的必然性与可能性：－与郭广银、赵华现场商榷     

王彩玲 《湘潭师范学院学报(社会科学版)》2001,23(3):16-20

科学意义上的“普世伦理”，作为一种客观的实体性存在，内涵于世界经济全球化趋势和世界市场秩序之中，其客观根据只能是世界经济全球化的趋势和人类的共同利益。人类社会面临的危机尤其是生存危机，使普世伦理道德的建立变得日益必要和迫切，但是，经济全球化还处在发展过程中之中，价值观还存在着严重的分歧和冲突，普世伦理还无未形成，因而当前普世俗化理还不具有现实性，只具有可能性。  相似文献