BODY DONATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AS A TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION
BODY DONATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AS A TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION

Summary/Abstract: The education of future medical practitioners and scientists requires adherence to ethical principles, the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, and the continuous development of practical skills. Even today, some of these skills can hardly be acquired without training on human cadavers. While cadaver dissection remains essential to medical education, it also raises important ethical and legal concerns. This article examines how medical schools in Serbia obtain bodies for educational purposes. Voluntary body donation by last will, once the most common practice, remains the only legal mechanism. This creates a significant gap between the need for teaching material and the strict formal requirements prescribed by law. Against the background of previous theoretical and empirical research, the article explores the rationale for these requirements, particularly in light of their inconsistency with related rules of Serbian inheritance law.

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