Airong Ma, Ying Ding, Jianfei Lu, Yan Wo, Wenlong Ding
Body donation is a valuable resource in medical education, research, clinical diagnosis, and treatment. Consequently, donors are honored as "Silent Mentors" in Chinese medical schools. This article briefly reviews the history, current status, and strategies to promote body donation in China (excluding data from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions) and discusses the problems encountered in body donation work in China. After establishing the People's Republic of China in 1949, the central government issued regulations on the use of dissected bodies...
February 15, 2024: Annals of Anatomy