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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788457203321

Titolo

Controversial bodies : thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / / edited by John D. Lantos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-4214-0357-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LantosJohn D

Disciplina

611/.018

Soggetti

Bioethics

Human anatomy

Tissues - Plastic embedment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-139) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.