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Vol. 4 No. 4: New immortalities: Death, donation, and dedication in the twenty-first century

‘Silent mentors’: Donation, education, and bodies in Taiwan

  • Rachel Douglas-Jones
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.4.4.454
Submitted
October 8, 2016
Published
06-Nov-2020

Abstract

Unlike cadaver donation in the West, which has to a large degree maintained the anonymity of the body used to teach medical students, the Taiwanese Tzu Chi Buddhist Silent Mentor programme at the centre of this article foregrounds the identity of the trai