Fennell S, Jones D G
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago, Dunedin.
N Z Med J. 1992 Nov 25;105(946):472-4.
To explore why and by whom body bequests to the Otago Medical School have been made since the 1960s.
We sent out a questionnaire to people who have bequeathed their bodies to the medical school, the people being randomly selected on the basis of the inclusion of the initial J in a forename. The questionnaire sought information on sex, marital status, age, occupation at the time of bequest and bequest information source, as well as reasons for the bequest, expectations of cadaver use and attitudes towards organ donation.
The most common reasons for making a bequest were--to aid medical science, and gratitude to the medical profession. There was, however, widespread confusion between cadaver use for medical teaching and for research.
These center around the ethical implications of our findings for organ donation and attitudes towards usage of the dead body.
探讨自20世纪60年代以来，为何有人将遗体捐赠给奥塔哥医学院以及捐赠者是谁。
我们向那些将遗体捐赠给医学院的人发放了调查问卷，这些人是根据名字首字母为J随机挑选出来的。问卷询问了性别、婚姻状况、年龄、捐赠时的职业和捐赠信息来源，以及捐赠原因、对尸体使用的期望和对器官捐赠的态度。
捐赠的最常见原因是——帮助医学科学以及对医学专业的感激之情。然而，对于尸体用于医学教学和研究存在普遍的混淆。
这些结论围绕着我们的研究结果对器官捐赠和对尸体使用态度的伦理影响。
