The impact of enhancing publicity and commemoration of body donors at Zhengzhou University, China

Abstract

As a fundamental subject of medical education, human anatomy plays a critical role in the development of medical science. However, because of multiple factors including cultural conservativism and limited social understanding, China is facing a particularly severe shortage of bodies donated for anatomy education. Zhengzhou University (ZZU) has continued to uphold whole‐body dissection as the preferred method for medical students to learn anatomy. For this study, records of registered individuals (who have signed a body donation agreement) and donors (whose bodies have been received) from 2001 to 2020 were collected and analyzed. The aim of this study was to explore the factors influencing the body donation program (BDP) at ZZU, and then reinforce the social understanding for the BDP. The results showed a significant increase in the numbers of both registered individuals and donors since 2015, which is the year the publicity and commemoration in honor of donors were increased. There were no significant differences between the biological male and female sexes in the registered individuals, but the number of male donors (12.85 ± 10.86, per year) was significantly higher than that of female donors (4.75 ± 4.53, per year). The current donor profile at ZZU is male in his 60/70s, while the profile of registered individuals is male or female in their 60s. Strengthening the publicity and commemoration in honor of donors may contribute to the implementation of BDPs.

Poetic Metonymy—Humanization in Cries in the Drizzle and Its English

“…The translator adopts the direct translation method to interpret the structure of "Adj + N", in order to preserve the writing style of original author and vivid and concise language feature of original text. It partly disproves that "English is metaphorical while Chinese is metonymic" which is concluded by Huang (1994) [12] and proves that "both English and Chinese are metonymic language" proposed by Zhang (2023) [3] . Therefore, metonymy has the same status as metaphor instead that "metonymy is regarded as a sub-type of metaphor" put forward by Song (2011, p. 68) [13] .…”

“…Metonymic humanization was most commonly found in collocation of "Adj + N", and "adjectives" were usually used to describe psychological, emotional, or physiological states of human beings, such as attributive psych adjective like "reluctant" with its modified inanimate noun like "hand" in the unusual collocations of "the small reluctant hand". Zhang (2023) [3] proposed that the description of plot and affection in the novel was often vivid and dramatic which emerges from embodiment of visual and auditory perception in metonymic humanization. Therefore, it is worthy of taking metonymic humanization approach to literary texts.…”

“…The term "metonymic humanization" first appears in Zhang (2015)[2] modeling on psych "Adj + N" constructions, such as "a small reluctant hand". In the elaboration of this concept, Zhang (2023) [3] proposes that the vivid and touching description in a novel often emerges from embodiment of visual and auditory perceptions in metonymic humanization. According to Zhang, metonymic humanization shares the same mechanism with metonymy.…”

“…The findings of this study indicate that cognitive metonymy is an effective approach to literary texts and metonymic humanization is an effective way to analysis of unusual collocations in literary texts. And finally in the hope of revealing the hypothesis Zhang (2023) [3] proposed that both Chinese and English should be metonymic.…”