Controversial bodies thoughts on the public display of plastinated corpses / edited by John D. Lantos.
| Other author | Lantos, John D. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Description | x, 145 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011004503 |
| ISBN | 9781421402710 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1421402718 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |