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- ISBN 9780786436569
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 2008
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
T. Christine Jespersen is a professor of English at Western State College of Colorado. Alicita Rodríguez is a visiting professor of English at Western State College of Colorado. Joseph Starr is an independent scholar who works as a freelance writer and translator.
