When I Die, I Will Go To the University
A Study of Body Donation in the Netherlands
by Sophie Bolt

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Author(s)

Sophie Bolt

Publication

Almere : Parthenon Publishing House, 2012

Scope

198 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9789079578450

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When I Die, I Will Go To the University’ contains research articles investigating the actual practice of body donation in the Netherlands. It is argued that body donation is a complex, dynamic and meaningful way of gift-giving. By doing so body donors, anatomical professionals and bereaved get related to one another in the extraordinary gift of a whole body to an anatomical institute. Each year approximately 650 people voluntarily donate their entire body after dea th to one of the eight anatomical institutes in the Netherlands. publication iu nthe context of the Stroom project by Christine Borland 'Circles of Focus'.

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Keywords

body , death

Stroom project

Circles of Focus: The Fall Experiment

Location

Cabinet 1 - 5: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Bevat literatuur.