Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, Gunther von Hagens' 'Body Worlds' exhibition has been visited by millions. This book 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.
Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, Gunther von Hagens' 'Body Worlds' exhibition has been visited by millions. This book 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.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction ALICITA RODRÍGUEZ AND JOSEPH STARR Section One: A Beauty Salon for Bodily Interiors The Plastinates' Narrative JOSEPH STARR Afterlife, but Not as We Know It: Melancholy, Post-Biological Ontology, and Plastinated Bodies NATALIA LIZAMA Locating the Sublime LISA NEVÁREZ Take Me: The Rhetoric of Donation AVIVA BRIEFEL Individualist Etiologies: Environmental Health, Biological Risk, and Medical Display REBECCA ONION Section Two: The Usual Gruesome Anatomical Apparitions The Persistence of Tradition in Anatomical Museums STEPHEN JOHNSON Illuminating the Soul: Panopticism and the Freak Show PEDRO PONCE The Amethyst Seal: Anatomy and Identity in Bentham and von Hagens PATRICIA PIERSON Section Three: The Resurrection of Excoriated Bodies Affecting Bodies NATALIE LOVELESS Worrying About Democratic Values: Body Worlds in German Context, 1996-2004 PETER M. MCISAAC The Echo of German Horror Films ALEXANDRA LUDEWIG Touching the Corpse: The Unmaking of Memory in the Body Museum ULI LINKE Section Four: Disharmonious Bodily Openings Forced Impregnation and Masculinist Utopia T. CHRISTINE JESPERSEN AND ALICITA RODRÍGUEZ The Politics of Fetal Display CHRISTIAN DUCOMB Corpse-less: A Battle with Abjection ELIZABETH SIMON RUCHTI Section Five: Aesthetic and Instructive but Not Morally Offensive 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 About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction ALICITA RODRÍGUEZ AND JOSEPH STARR Section One: A Beauty Salon for Bodily Interiors The Plastinates' Narrative JOSEPH STARR Afterlife, but Not as We Know It: Melancholy, Post-Biological Ontology, and Plastinated Bodies NATALIA LIZAMA Locating the Sublime LISA NEVÁREZ Take Me: The Rhetoric of Donation AVIVA BRIEFEL Individualist Etiologies: Environmental Health, Biological Risk, and Medical Display REBECCA ONION Section Two: The Usual Gruesome Anatomical Apparitions The Persistence of Tradition in Anatomical Museums STEPHEN JOHNSON Illuminating the Soul: Panopticism and the Freak Show PEDRO PONCE The Amethyst Seal: Anatomy and Identity in Bentham and von Hagens PATRICIA PIERSON Section Three: The Resurrection of Excoriated Bodies Affecting Bodies NATALIE LOVELESS Worrying About Democratic Values: Body Worlds in German Context, 1996-2004 PETER M. MCISAAC The Echo of German Horror Films ALEXANDRA LUDEWIG Touching the Corpse: The Unmaking of Memory in the Body Museum ULI LINKE Section Four: Disharmonious Bodily Openings Forced Impregnation and Masculinist Utopia T. CHRISTINE JESPERSEN AND ALICITA RODRÍGUEZ The Politics of Fetal Display CHRISTIAN DUCOMB Corpse-less: A Battle with Abjection ELIZABETH SIMON RUCHTI Section Five: Aesthetic and Instructive but Not Morally Offensive 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 About the Contributors Index
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