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Title:

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

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 145 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Tissues--Plastic embedment.
Human anatomy.
Bioethics.
Cadaver.
Medicine in Art.
Bioethical Issues.
Exhibits as Topic.
Human Body.
Plastic Embedding.

Other Authors:

Lantos, John D.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-139) and index.

Contents:

Being non-biodegradable: the lonely fate of metameat / Catherine Belling -- Life-like humans : playing poker with James Bond and Ted Williams / George J. Annas -- More wondrous and more worthy to behold: the future of public anatomy / Geoffrey Rees -- Resisting the allure of the lifelike dead / Christine Montross -- Detachment has consequences: a note of caution from medical students' experiences of cadaver dissection / Farr A. Curlin -- The history and potential of public anatomy / Callum F. Ross -- What would Dr. William Hunter think about 'Bodies revealed?' / Lynda Payne -- 'Vive la difference': Gunther von Hagens and his maligned copycats / Linda Shulte-Sasse -- Normative objections to posing plastinated bodies: an ethics of bodily repose / Tarris Rosell -- For Ronnie and Donnie / Myra Christopher -- The creeping illusionizing of identity from neurobiology to newgenics / Barbara Maria Stafford.-- Craft and narrative in 'Body worlds': an aesthetic consideration / Neil A. Ward -- Afterword: Plastination's share of mind / Neil A. Ward, John D. Lantos.

ISBN:

1421402718 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421402710 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)700377003

LCCN:

2011004503

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)