Body World

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Body World
By Atonomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens

• Moral or Immoral?

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PLASTINATION

• Invented 1970s
• Preserve body's
• Water and fat replaced by certain plastics.
• They can be touched
• No smell or decay

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ISSUES

• Religious
• Political/Legal
• Educational
• Personal

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RELIGIOUS

• Catholic/Jewish
• Not respectful of human body

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Political/Legal

• Getting body's from unknown (illegal)
  origins...prisoners in China... Body's returned
  after finding out.
• Laws/Permits
• Human/Animal Rights
• Willing donation of bodies
• Make Profit

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EDUCATIONAL

• Exhibits Brain, Heart, Mirror of Time, Sex,
  Muscles, Etc...
• Its purpose is to educate people about human
  body.

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Personal

• What do you think? Moral or Immoral?
• What makes this any different then when Leonardo
  de Vinci cut open corpses to learn more about the
  human anatomy?

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

• www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_WorldsControversies
• www.bodyworks.com
• www.images.google.ca/bodyworld