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I just got back from the Body Worlds Exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly. Everybody in this forum will find it interesting from the scientific perspective, but also it was artistically amazing. Anyways, here's the link to the exhibit's website so you can see if its coming to your city:

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp


It's an exhibit of plasticized cadaevers.... it covers all organ systems and muscle grouping in pretty creative ways.

 

[DrBorisCA]

I just got back from the Body Worlds Exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly. Everybody in this forum will find it interesting from the scientific perspective, but also it was artistically amazing. Anyways, here's the link to the exhibits website so you can see if its coming to your city:

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp

The isolated circulatory system is my fave...

 

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The isolated circulatory system is my fave...

Apparently they have two rotating exhibits, so I didn't see that one... The one I saw had a really cool gymnast

 

[Craniotomy114]

I visited the exibhit when it came to the great lakes science center in cleveland last year. It was amazing! I particularly like the soccer player. 🙂

 

[UCDavisdude]

gosh, ive been waiting for one of these exhibits to come to northern cali, no luck yet. anyone know of a date scheduled for san fran or any other northern cali city??

 

[The Madden Bus]

I just got back from the Body Worlds Exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philly. Everybody in this forum will find it interesting from the scientific perspective, but also it was artistically amazing. Anyways, here's the link to the exhibit's website so you can see if its coming to your city:

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp


It's an exhibit of plasticized cadaevers.... it covers all organ systems and muscle grouping in pretty creative ways.

Yea, I went to the one in the southstreet seaport in NYC. It's a different exhibit, it's called bodies the exhibition, same idea I guess just different people presenting it. It's really good. The circulatory system is definetly the most interesting part of it.

 

[zero2hero]

Yea, I went to the one in the southstreet seaport in NYC. It's a different exhibit, it's called bodies the exhibition, same idea I guess just different people presenting it. It's really good. The circulatory system is definetly the most interesting part of it.

Yup went to the one in seaport a few months back. Circulatory system was by far the highlight of the exhibit.

 

[medfool24]

Yeah I visited in when it was in Chicago. It was simply amaizing. 😀

 

[kirexhana]

Anyone ever touch something plasticized? At Umich, the tour leader handed us a plasticized liver. It was pretty interesting. It looked like a liver, but was solid as a rock...

 

[browniegirl86]

It's coming to Houston, and I'm so there. My mom sent me the museum brochure. Sweeeeeet.

 

[gdbaby]

FYI: It's here in Denver starting on March 10 with 30,000 pre-sold tickets!

 

[notdeadyet]

gosh, ive been waiting for one of these exhibits to come to northern cali, no luck yet. anyone know of a date scheduled for san fran or any other northern cali city??

Came and went. It was at the Masonic Center until late November of last year.

 

[anon-y-mouse]

Absolutely amazing! I loved the suspended figures in sports positions... like the snowboarder, figure skaters, etc. the pregnant mother was pretty cool, too.

 

[notdeadyet]

To each their own, of course, but some folks (myself included) have ethical issues with visiting the Body Worlds Exhibit. They've used the corpses of executed Chinese political prisoners in the past and the person who runs the exhibit has had a tough time explaining provenance for some of the other bodies.

There's an ethical dilema that comes up from giving money to infotainment exhibits that have given money to regimes for the bodies of executed political prisoners. Makes for a nasty conflict of interest and the now-corpse never gave explicit permission. Ugly stuff...

 

[radioh3ad]

i've been meaning to go for so long. but egads it's freakin cold in the city these days.

 

[anon-y-mouse]

To each their own, of course, but some folks (myself included) have ethical issues with visiting the Body Worlds Exhibit. They've used the corpses of executed Chinese political prisoners in the past and the person who runs the exhibit has had a tough time explaining provenance for some of the other bodies.

There's an ethical dilema that comes up from giving money to infotainment exhibits that have given money to regimes for the bodies of executed political prisoners. Makes for a nasty conflict of interest and the now-corpse never gave explicit permission. Ugly stuff...

Am I wrong in thinking that this was the case for only the first exhibit or so? At all current exhibits, there are donor forms that people can fill out to donate their body... and I've read news reports that this is widely popular. I would think that the creator has moved on, to use "fair trade" bodies? (especially since there are SEVERAL exhibits going on at the same time throughout the world)

 

[notdeadyet]

Am I wrong in thinking that this was the case for only the first exhibit or so? At all current exhibits, there are donor forms that people can fill out to donate their body... and I've read news reports that this is widely popular. I would think that the creator has moved on, to use "fair trade" bodies? (especially since there are SEVERAL exhibits going on at the same time throughout the world)

I would definitely not assume that. As recently as last year in San Francisco there were more problems (including some of the bodies leaking; city health department loved that...).

Like I said, to each their own, I'm just not comfortable supporting the Body Worlds brand.

 

[RxnMan]

There's another thread like this one for the Denver SDNers:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=255253&highlight=body+worlds

 

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I would definitely not assume that. As recently as last year in San Francisco there were more problems (including some of the bodies leaking; city health department loved that...).

Like I said, to each their own, I'm just not comfortable supporting the Body Worlds brand.

They made it definitely clear that the exhibit involved cadaevers of DONATED bodies... this wasn't extravagant body theivery. The exhibit also makes it a point to seperate the identities of the deceased from the science behind the human body. They go to extremes to never include information about the particular person...

I feel that its each of our responsibilities as humans to have a slight if no significant understanding of how our body works... our bodies are so inextricably linked with our thoughts and daily lives, that we should know how our body executes daily functions. The purpose of the exhibit was to provide this insight... not to address any other social or political topics.

 

[notdeadyet]

They made it definitely clear that the exhibit involved cadaevers of DONATED bodies...

Yes, they made that clear before. And were then notified that the bodies were not donated with family consent and many of dubious sources.

I'm not saying it's ghoul-like to go to the exhibit. It looks like a great exhibition. I just am not ethically comfortable patronizing it because of the way it's been done.

Again, to each their own. There's lots of information out there. Do a hunt on Body Worlds Exhibit and China or Political Prisoner or somesuch and you'll get lots of information. This guy was not fussy about cadaver sources. As a physician to be, this bothers me.