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Use of cadavers to train surgeons: what are the ethical issues?
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This is an invited submission from the Editor-in-Chief as the introductory piece for an ‘Ethics Roundtable’. This piece will include invited commentaries from experts in surgical education, medical ethics, law and the prospective body donor perspective.
- education for health care professionals
- education
- human tissue
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