The culture of donation
The culture of donation stems from a deep inner motivation. Donating one's body to science is a gesture of high civic value and solidarity that helps promote study and research, aimed in turn at protecting public health.
For the training and continuing education of health professionals
Doctors, nurses, students and researchers entrust their education to the possibility of body donation at medical and graduate schools. By doing so, they can better understand the human body, developing new treatments, drugs and interventional procedures, as well as surgical techniques and medical procedures in general that can hardly be acquired through traditional study in books and lectures or virtual models.
For the refinement of surgical techniques to the benefit of future patients
Body donation makes it possible to reduce the possibility of errors and increase the safety of medical and surgical procedures. This allows physicians, not only the new generation but also those already in the field for years, to implement their skills and test new technologies such as robotic-type ones, falling within the lifelong learning perspective.
For an ethical choice
Body donation can help greatly reduce the use of animals in clinical trials of drugs and treatments.
For the advancement of medical research
Donated bodies can be used to create human tissue banks, which are needed to study pathogenetic mechanisms of diseases and identify new biomarkers. This can lead to the improvement of existing therapies and the development of new drugs.
