"Silent virtuous teachers": anatomical dissection in Taiwan.
Steven C Lin, Julia Hsu, and Victoria Y Fan describe how the dissection course at Tzu Chi College of Medicine in Taiwan has motivated and inspired people to donate their bodies for scientific endeavours, an otherwise culturally avoided gesture in the East.
Lin
Steven C
SC
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
Hsu
Julia
J
Fan
Victoria Y
VY
D000715:Anatomy / Q000193:education*; D002102:Cadaver; D003469:Culture; D004210:Dissection / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006801:Humans; D013624:Taiwan; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*