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The anatomy of Body Worlds : critical essays on the plastinated cadavers of Gunther von Hagens /
- Title
- The anatomy of Body Worlds : critical essays on the plastinated cadavers of Gunther von Hagens / edited by T. Christine Jespersen, Alicita Rodr íguez, and Joseph Starr.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2009.
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- Description
- viii, 267 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Anatomy
- Cadaver in art > Exhibitions
- Cadaver in art
- Cadaver
- Exhibits as Topic
- Hagens, Gunther von > Exhibitions
- Hagens, Gunther von
- Human Body
- Human anatomy > Exhibitions
- Human anatomy
- Human figure in art > Exhibitions
- Human figure in art
- Medicine and art > Exhibitions
- Medicine and art
- Medicine in the Arts
- Plastic Embedding
- Plastination > Exhibitions
- Plastination
- Tissues > Plastic embedment > Exhibitions
- Tissues > Plastic embedment
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Alicita Rodríguez and Joseph Starr -- Plastinates' narrative / Jospeh Starr -- Afterlife, but not as we know it : melancholy, post-biological ontology and plastinated bodies / Natalia Lizama -- Take me : the rhetoric of donation / Aviva Briefel -- Individualist etiologies : environmental health, biological risk, and medical display / Rebecca Onion -- Persistence of tradition in anatomical museums / Stephen Johnson -- Illuminating the soul : panopticism and the freak show / Pedro Ponce -- Amethyst seal : anatomy and identity in Bentham and von Hagens / Patricia Pierson -- Affecting bodies / Natalie Loveless -- Worrying about democratic values : Body Worlds in German context, 1996-2004 / Peter M. McIsaac -- Echo of German horror films / Alexandra Ludewig -- Touching the corpse : the unmaking of memory in the Body Museum / Uli Linke -- Forced impregnation and masculinist utopia / T. Christine Jespersen and Alicita Rodríguez -- Politics of fetal display / Christian DuComb -- Corpse-less : a battle with abjection / Elizabeth Simon Ruchti -- Anatomy without integrity / Ruth Levy Guyer -- Adoration, veneration, plastination : theo-liturgical reflections / Paul Wojda -- Twilife : the art and science of consuming death / Lucia Tanassi -- Emergent bodies : human, all too human, posthuman / Ara Osterweil and David Baumflek.
- ISBN
- 9780786436569
- 0786436565
- LCCN
- 2008041143
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library