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Controversial bodies thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses

Title
Controversial bodies [electronic resource] : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
Lantos, John D.
Description
1 online resource (x, 145 p.)
Uniform Title
Controversial bodies (Online)
Subject
  • Tissues > Plastic embedment
  • Human anatomy
  • Bioethics
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2011004503
OCLC
ssj0000606278
Title
Controversial bodies [electronic resource] : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Lantos, John D.
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