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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 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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BodyWorlds – art exhibition for a strong stomach

By mariusssmoke on | From ideasforhouses.com
Soothing programs by best selling author and composer Max Highstein The Diet Solution Program Tweet Tweet Before you start reading this, I must warn you, BodyWorlds IS NOT FOR ALL OF YOU , especially if you don’t have a strong stomach. I am writing this article because it’s an excellent interior design  idea for school laboratories, for medical units, of even for high eccentric living rooms designs . Personally i find this an original interior design idea , maybe a...Read Full Story

Body Worlds Exhibit

By sunnybrook572 on | From blogofdallas.com
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...Read Full Story

Bodyworlds, Trafalgar Square & The Streets

By samir01 on | From samirhussein.blogspot.com
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...Read Full Story

Body Worlds creator plans to display himself

By newslite on | From newslite.tv
Anatomist Gunther von Hagens, the man behind Body Worlds and the Institute for Plastination, says he is dying and plans to become part of his own exhibition. The 65-year-old, dubbed 'Dr Death' thanks to his gruesome exhibitions of dead bodies in bizarre poses, has revealed he's suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Having hidden the illness for two years, he says the symptoms have become too severe and that doctors suggest he could now have just seven years to live. It's said he's planning to...Read Full Story

Uni spends £400,000 on creepy body parts

By newslite on | From newslite.tv
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...Read Full Story
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