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

Other author Lantos, John D.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionx, 145 p. ; 23 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011004503
ISBN9781421402710 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1421402718 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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