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

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 611/.018
• Soggetto topico: Bioethics; Human anatomy; Tissues - Plastic embedment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LantosJohn D
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Controversial bodies
• ISBN: 1-4214-0357-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463596003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II