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The Anatomy of Body Worlds
Critical Essays on the Plastinated Cadavers of Gunther von Hagens
Edited by T. Christine Jespersen , Alicita Rodríguez and Joseph Starr

ISBN 978-0-7864-3656-9
7 photos, notes, bibliography, index
276pp. softcover 2009

Description
Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds exhibition has been visited by more than 25 million people at museums and science centers across North America, Europe, and Asia. Preserved through von Hagens’ unique process of plastination, the bodies shown in the controversial exhibit are posed to mimic life and art, from a striking re-creation of Rodin’s The Thinker, to a preserved horse and its human rider, a basketball player, and a reclining pregnant woman—complete with fetus in its eighth month. This interdisciplinary volume analyzes Body Worlds from a number of perspectives, describing the legal, ethical, sociological, and religious concerns which seem to accompany the exhibition as it travels the world.

About the Author
T. Christine Jespersen is a professor of English at Western State College of Colorado.

Alicita Rodríguezis a visiting professor of English at Western State College of Colorado. She lives in Pitkin, Colorado.

Joseph Starr is an independent scholar who works as a freelance writer and translator. He lives in Pitkin, Colorado





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