Anxiety and dissection of the human cadaver: An unsolvable relationship?

Anatomical Record - Part B New Anatomist

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-23

  Arráez Aybar, Luis Alfonso ^a,b,c   Casado Morales, M Isabel ^d   Castaño Collado, Gloria ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Spain)

^c Faculty of Psychology at CUM ^*  (Spain)

^d Faculty of Psychology at CUM

Author keywords

Anatomy; Anxiety; Cadaver; Dissection; Education; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; TIME;

EID: 4043157221     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.b.20022     Document Type: Article

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