Becoming Silent Mentors: Buddhist Ethics Regarding Cadaver Donations for Science in Taiwan
Since 1995, thousands of people in Taiwan have pledged each year to donate their cadavers to the medical college run by the Buddhist Tzu Chi (Ciji) Foundation. The “surge of cadavers” seems intriguing in a society where ancestor worship continues to be salient. Drawing on my fieldwork in 2012–2013 a...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 782-804 |
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whole body donation
B emotional practice B Commemoration B Equanimity B Buddhism B cadaver B Taiwan B Tzu Chi |
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