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Guo-Ming Chen1, Chien Chang2, Tong Yu3
1Department of Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 02881, USA. gmchen@uri.edu
Abstract:
This article examines the spiritual communication between medical students and the donated dead body they anatomized, referred to as the silent teacher. Data were obtained from the medical school of Tzu Chi University in Taiwan, where students are required to write a letter to the silent teacher at the end of the semester after they have anatomized the body. The school has collected and published a total of 89 letters from 1996 to 2001. This article content analyzes all the 89 letters published and draws common themes from them. Based on the results of this content analysis, we have developed a model of spiritual communication.
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