What's wrong with the dead body?
- 21 January 2002
- journal article
- viewpoint
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 176 (2), 74-76
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04290.x
Abstract
A 2000 survey of Australian medical schools showed that use of anatomical dissection and autopsies for teaching has declined. Opinions vary between schools as to the effect on teaching of anatomy and pathology. However, exposure to the dissected human body may have benefits beyond this teaching, including inculcating the trait of “detached concern”, teaching about medical fallibility and uncertainty, and raising issues of death and dying.Keywords
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