This article examines body donation for science and medical education through a qualitative narrative review with a documentary case-study component. Drawing on academic literature, regulatory and professional documents, and publicly accessible institutional materials, the study develops an analytical framework for examining body donation programs through three guiding axes: the donated body as a pedagogical agent, as an ethical postmortem subject, and as a symbol of institutional memory. This article was designed as a qualitative narrative review with a documentary case-study component. From this framework, the analysis identifies recurrent dimensions in the literature, including pedagogical humanization, informed consent, traceability, memorialization, governance, and institutional accountability. The article then situates these dimensions in the Chilean context, highlighting the ethical and organizational implications of operating in the absence of a comprehensive regulatory framework. Within this setting, the experience of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is examined as a documentary case that makes visible how body donation practices are institutionally articulated in relation to consent, traceability, commemorative recognition, and ethical formation. The study shows how body donation programs can be understood not only as technical arrangements for anatomy teaching, but as institutional practices in which science, pedagogy, ethics, and memory are closely intertwined.KEY WORDS: Body donation; Bioethics; Medical education; Traceability.