BODY WORLDS

German scientist Gunther von Hagens created the Body Worlds show and developed the preservation technique used to preserve the human bodies, called "plastination". He intends the exhibits to teach people about human skeletal, cardiovascular and the treatment of diseases.

The Body Worlds exhibit has been on display in Tokyo, San Jose California, and now Manchester.

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Professor Gunter Von Hagens poses next to one of his anatomical specimens playing football at the launch of his latest exhibition BODY WORLDS 4 at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on February 21, 2008, Manchester, England. Since its debut in Tokyo in 1996, the show has sparked controversy and curiosity. German scientist Gunther von Hagens, who created the show and developed the preservation technique used to preserve the bodies, called "plastination", intends the exhibits to teach people about human skeletal, cardiovascular and the treatment of diseases.

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Yes, it's very educational and advances people's appreciation for the human body

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No, these are real humans and their remains should be buried

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Bodyworlds, Trafalgar Square & The Streets

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The Bodyworlds exhibition, 'Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time' was both amazing to witness and photograph. The man behind it, Gunther von Hagens, is no stranger controversy but I found his latest and biggest exhibit, which shows the body living through time – at its most radiant and as it changes, grows, matures, peaks and finally wanes - compelling and totally different to anything I've seen before. To think these are real bodies takes some getting used to as they look more like wax works, but the show as a whole shows a lot - not just about how our bodies function and ... Read Full Story

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Body Worlds Exhibit

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Our family has been fortunate to view and experience the Body Worlds Exhibit two times! Once in Florida, which was incredible and then here in Dallas! Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS exhibits are the first public anatomical exhibitions of real human plastinates. They have been on display worldwide for ten years and so far, nearly 25 million visitors have viewed the exhibits at venues in cities across Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. The exceptional success of the exhibits is to a great extent due to its educational value. They are structured in such a way that visitors experience it much as they ... Read Full Story

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Uni spends £400,000 on creepy body parts

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A university has spent £400,000 buying 200 plastinated body parts from Gunther von Hagens’ laboratory in Germany. Warwick University splashed the cash on the specimens, which have been used in the German scientists creepy Body Worlds exhibitions, to help medical students. The long-lasting body parts are created by removing body fat and water from bodies donated to the Institute for Plastination and impregnating a plastic polymer to preserve the body or body part. They will now be used teach anatomy to medical students ... and help the science department hold the best Halloween parties the university has ever seen. Warwick Medical School’s Chair of ... Read Full Story

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Sex corpses cut into bits over decency row

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Controversial anatomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens has taken a hacksaw to one of his own exhibitions, to get around German decency laws. Officials in Augsburg had banned him from displaying one of his trademark BodyWorlds exhibits, where corpses are injected with a plastic to preserve them and skinned to show muscles and organs. But it wasn't the gore they objected to, or the fact the bodies were in a reverse cowgirl sexual position, but apparently the faces they were pulling. As a result Von Hagens said he will cut the off the limbs and then put only the most intimate parts on display, no-one ... Read Full Story

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Dead bodies as exhibits: Educational events or Macabre business?

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I drove by the billboard and felt my stomach churn again. I can't make myself see this as a good thing. Looming in lurid color is a billboard for entertainment at a local casino -- an exhibit of over a dozen dead bodies with the skin partially removed, preserved in polymers, posed to display various organs. Some bodies still have their faces (or part of them) on. Some do not. They have all been put through a process called "plastination" so that they will "resist decomposition". Not everyone who donates their body for use after death suspects it will end up at one of ... Read Full Story

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Take my body and plastinate it, Toronto woman tells Gunther von Hagens

The Body Worlds & the Story of the Heart exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre relies on volunteers willing to have their bodies go through a process called plastination, and then posed so visitors can examine them. Stef Chapu, 34, is one of seven people currently living in the Toronto area who have donated their bodies to mastermind Gunther von Hagens. The Post's Matthew Coutts wondered what she was thinking? Q How did you come to the...

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Body Worlds Returns to Toronto, This Time with More Heart

When Gunther Von Hagens' Body Worlds came to town in 2005 almost half a million of us went to see it at the Science Centre, and 32,000 alone over the marathon 61-hour final weekend. Visitors were amazed by the full-body plastinates on display, each of them created using the body of a deceased human being who had donated their remains to Von Hagens' Institute for Plastination (IfP). The process goes like this: the body is dissected and...

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I don't think I'll be getting tickets

I know we're not supposed to stereotype people, but why am I not surprised that we've got Germans stacking some extra horror on top of some regular horror...German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions.Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley show corpses prepared using a technique invented by von Hagens called "plastination," that removes water from specimens and...

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