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Title Controversial bodies : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 145 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-139) and index
Notes English
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Subject Bioethics.
Human anatomy.
Tissues -- Plastic embedment.
Dead.
Exhibitions.
Medicine in the Arts
Cadaver
Bioethical Issues
Exhibitions as Topic
Human Body
Plastic Embedding
Bioethics
exhibitions (events)
MEDICAL -- Anatomy.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Exhibitions
Dead
Bioethics
Human anatomy
Tissues -- Plastic embedment
Form Electronic book
Author Lantos, John D
LC no. 2011004503
ISBN 9781421403571
1421403579