Body Worlds: Real Human Flesh, Transformed by Plastic »
Posted By ebookey 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyOpen to the public, this traveling art/science exhibition advertises its fare in cities where it appears. “ Body Worlds” is an exhibition of preserved human bodies and internal organs, preserved by a process called “ plastination.” Fluids are removed from the human tissues (skin, muscles, internal organs, etc.) and are replaced with a clear preservative plastic. This makes the body decay-proof and quite effectively mummified. This process was invented by a German anatomist Gunther von Hagens in the late 1970s.
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barucci6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I find this exhibit really creepy and perhaps inappropriate. The doctor has a dead body plasticizing plant in China. The earlier bodies used were purported to be those executed by the Chinese government. Even if that is not the case and people consented to having their bodies used in this way, the ethics of viewing remains (and becoming desensitized to this through the thrill aspect of the exhibit) is disturbing.
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When the exhibit came to the Toronto Science Centre a few years ago, my son's grade 5 class was taken on a field trip to see it (and weirdly the teacher in charge had no idea it might be disturbing for students). Many of the children had nightmares after the viewing.-
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Egodeus596 months, 3 weeks ago
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I agree its not really something one should go see "just for fun" but both me and my sister were both studying anatomy, her for massage and to become an RN, and honestly compared to medical books we both probably learnt more in an hour then a month of reading anatomy books could ever do.
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I seriously question what was wrong with your child's school for taking them to something like that, the school probably had the right intention but that's not really something you should take children to, they're not mature enough to be able to view something like that, it'd be like taking them to a morgue to learn about biology which I doubt anyone would ever consider doing for obvious reasons.
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GWHayduke6 months, 3 weeks ago
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I've seen this exhibit twice and it is an amazing educational opportunity.
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My wife is in the field and she was able to explain in great detail - to me and our kids - the positives and negatives of what we were seeing.
It is fascinating.
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