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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds : the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies / Gunther von Hagens, Angelina Whalley ; ... translation, Francis Kelly.

Publisher, Date:

Heidelberg, Germany : Arts & Sciences ; Institute fuer Plastination, c2005.

Description:

319 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm. + 1 videodisc (4 3/4 in.)

Summary:

Catalog of Gunther von Hagen's exhibition of human bodies preserved by plastination and presented as "natural art" (p. 13). Work also includes a short history of anatomy, and essays on ethical perspectives.

Subjects:

Hagens, Gunther von.

Human anatomy -- Catalogs.

Human anatomy -- Exhibitions.

Human body -- Exhibitions.

Human body -- Catalogs.

Plastination.

Cadaver in art -- Catalogs.

Cadaver in art -- Exhibitions.

Medicine in art -- Catalogs.

Medicine in art -- Exhibitions.

Preservation of organs, tissues, etc.

Human figure in art.

Other Author:

Whalley, Angelina.

Institute für Plastination.

Other Title:

Körperwelten. English.

Body worlds.

Look inside : Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds, the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

Notes:

Cover title. Imprint from colophon.

"Catalog on the exhibition"--P.[2].

"Body worlds is also known as Körperwelten, and Le monde du corps in some countries"--P.[2].

Accompanying all-region NTSC DVD has title: Look inside : Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds, the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Foreword / Wilhelm Kriz -- Anatomy and plastination / Gunther von Hagens -- The human body, anatomy and function / Angelina Whalley -- Gunther von Hagens and Body worlds / Charleen M. Moore, and C. Mackenzie Brown -- Plastinated specimens and their presentation in museums : a theoretical and bioethical retrospective on a media event / Axel W. Bauer -- When death goes on display / Ulrich Fischer -- The dignity of the individual / Franz Josef Wetz -- On gruesome corpses, gestalt plastinates and mandatory interment / Gunther von Hagens -- The educating power of the sciences / Bazon Brock -- Modern anatomical theatre : the first public autopsy in 200 years / Franz Josef Wetz -- Body worlds through the eyes of its visitors / Angelina Whalley -- Körperwelten as seen by visitors : visitor survey report from the first exhibition in Europe / Ernst D. Lantermann.

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Other information

ISBN:

3937256040

9783937256047

Other Number:

79476836

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

256880

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

735.24074 Hagens