Controversial bodies : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses

Controversial bodies : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos.

Plastination was invented in the 1970s by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. The process transforms living tissues into moldable plastic that can then be hardened into a permanent shape. Von Hagens first exhibited his expertly dissected, artfully posed plastinated bodies in Japan in 1995. Since th...

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Other Authors: Lantos, John D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Hagens, Gunther von.
Tissues > Plastic embedment.
Human anatomy.
Bioethics.
Table of Contents:
  • Vive la difference : Gunther von Hagens and his maligned copycats / Linda Shulte-Sasse
  • Life-like humans : playing poker with James Bond and Ted Williams / George J. Annas
  • What would Dr. William Hunter (1718-83) think about bodies revealed? / Lynda Payne
  • For Ronnie and Donnie / Myra Christopher
  • Resisting the allure of the lifelike dead / Christine Montross
  • Normative objections to posing plastinated bodies : an ethics of bodily repose / Tarris Rosell
  • More wondrous and more worthy to behold : the future of public anatomy / Geoffrey Rees
  • Public anatomy : history and potential / Callum F. Ross
  • Detachment has consequences : a note of caution from medical students' experiences of cadaver dissection / Farr A. Curlin
  • Craft and narrative in body worlds : an aesthetic consideration / Neil Ward
  • Being non-biodegradable : the lonely fate of metameat / Catherine belling
  • The creeping illusionizing of identity from neurobiology to newgenics / Barbara Maria S Stafford.

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