台湾解剖祭考

台湾各医学院校每年例行的解剖祭已有近百年历史。溯本求源,台湾的“解剖祭”源自日本,而日本的医学院校普遍实施的“解剖体祭”则始自山东洋。山东洋是日本第一位从事人体解剖的医学家,也是日本最早的解剖书《臧志》的著者。甲午战后,台湾被日本占据。解剖体祭的习俗亦随同日本医学传入台湾。由日据时期之台湾总督府医学校、医学专门学校、台北帝国大学医学部以迄光复后的台大医学院传承至今。医学教育机构举行解剖祭．表示对献体者的尊敬,影响社会风气,也激发社会人士捐献遗体的意愿,有助医学教育。

Anatomy cadaver ceremonies in Taiwan

The practice of holding annual ceremonies in honor of cadaver donors in Taiwan's medical schools has a history of nearly a hundred years. It originated in Japan, where such ceremonies have been widely held in medical schools since the practice was founded by Toyo Yamawaki, who was the first medical scholar in Japan to engage in dissection of the human body and was the author of the first anatomy book to appear in Japan, the Zoshi. The practice of holding donor ceremonies was introduced into Taiwan after the Jiawu Sino- Japanese war, when the island became a Japanese colony. The tradition was upheld in the Viceroy's Medical School, the Viceroy's College of Medicine, and Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial Univerity College of Medicine, and continued since the restoration of Chinese power to the present. The practice of hoding cadaver donor ceremonies in institutions of mdical education is intended to express respect for the donor as well as to encourage the practice of cadaver donation to the benefit of medical education.