Reviews
This work is an important contribution to the bioethics literature and one of the first volumes dedicated to the ethics of the public display of plastinated corpses. Highly recommended.
A dozen authors discuss issues surrounding the display of human bodies whose flesh has been preserved by plastic.
A rich survey of the issues provoked by the public display of plastinated corpses backed up by an impressive range of scholarship.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat
Chapter 2. Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat
Chapter 2. Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with James Bond and Ted Williams
Chapter 3. More Wondrous and More Worthy to Behold: The Future of Public Anatomy
Chapter 4. Resisting the Allure of the Lifelike Dead
Chapter 5. Detachment Has Consequences: A Note of Caution from Medical Students' Experiences of Cadaver Dissection
Chapter 6. The History and Potential of Public Anatomy
Chapter 7. What Would Dr. William Hunter Think about Bodies Revealed?
Chapter 8. Vive la differénce: Gunther von Hagens and His Maligned Copycats
Chapter 9. Normative Objections to Posing Plastinated Bodies: An Ethics of Bodily Repose
Chapter 10. For Ronnie and Donnie
Chapter 11. The Creeping Illusionizing of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics
Chapter 12. Craft and Narrative in Body Worlds: An Aesthetic Consideration
Afterword: Plastination's Share of Mind
Notes
Suggested Further Reading
Index