Ethical Questions for Anatomical Body Programs in an Age of Digital Technology

Abstract

Digital technology is influencing how many teaching institutions use bodies donated to science, with medical imaging procedures, photographs, 3D printing, and genomic information all being increasingly utilized. The increasing use of digitization raises new ethical considerations about how such bodies are used. Elements of information acquisition and communication that were not previously relevant, including ease of data sharing, size and type of data bases, authorization of information transfer, commercialization of information, and incidental findings arising from exome analysis, must now be considered. At present there is a lack of empirical evidence to guide appropriate utilization of this digital information including how acquisition, utilization, distribution, and destruction of such data should take place. The increasing use of digital technology with bodies donated to science raises questions on the nature of informed consent in a digital age, how family involvement in consent processes should be shaped, about anonymity and information sharing, and how potential commercialization of data should be addressed to facilitate the additional benefits such technology may bring to anatomical education. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .

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