The gift of the body
“to science”
is no more.
It is now
"donation of the body for the purposes of medical education and research"
, renamed by decree 2022-719 of the bioethics law, published in
the Official Journal
on April 28.
An appellation which specifies a little better the future of the 2500 to 3000 bodies bequeathed each year in France to faculties of medicine.
"It is often the morbid side of the donation of the body that is put forward, but little is communicated about its usefulness"
, remarks Nicolas Naïditch, sociologist who has carried out research on the profile of donors.
However, whatever the progress of simulation devices, the gift of the body remains very useful.
However,
“it does not have a good image in our society
, underlines the researcher.
Unlike organ donation, it is not the subject of communication campaigns.
And if we emphasize that organ donation saves lives, we do not explain that the donation of the body also has a benefit, but collective and in the longer term.
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