Body Worlds

Soothing programs by best selling author and composer Max Highstein The Diet Solution Program Tweet TweetBefore 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 little creepy, but a...Read Full Story

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

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

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

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

Image by orngejuglr via Flickr Bodyworlds Created by Dr. Gunther von Hagens, BODY WORLDS is the culmination of the German scientist and physician‘s more than 35-year career in anatomy. More than 31 million people around the world have experienced the BODY WORLDS exhibitions. BODY WORLDS exhibitions are the only exhibitions rely on an established body donation program. To date, more than 12,000 donors around the world have bequeathed their bodies to Dr. von Hagens Institute for...Read Full Story

Audioguide with german content. The first official audio-app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch in the exhibition BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart is an accompanying audio guide. More than 33 million people have seen this fascinating exhibition by Plastinator Dr. Gunther von Hagens and curator Dr. Angelina Whalley. Sacrificing none of the awe of the original, this edition by the prolific duo offers visitors profound insights into the human body, health and disease, and the intricate world of...Read Full Story

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...Read Full Story

Amplify’d from www.examiner.comTeacher braves science exhibit - Sports Medicine class visits "BODYWORLDS"Yesterday, I had the pleasure of escorting David Hayward's Highland High School sports medicine class to the BODYWORLDS science exhibit in downtown Phoenix.Mr. David Hayward teaches sports medicine classes at Highland, and my daughter is taking his class.  When the fieldtrip was announced along with the usual plea for parent volunteers to accompany approximately 100 high school students to...Read Full Story

LONDON (AFP) -- The latest exhibition by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens opens in London on Friday, with preserved human and animal bodies displaying life's journey from birth to death in gruesome detail.About 200 human and animal specimens, both full corpses and individual organs, are on show at the O2 arena until August 23, all of them preserved through the 'plastination' process von Hagens developed in 1977 to stop decay.The treatment requires taking the skin off the bodies to display...Read Full Story