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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lantos, John D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Human anatomy.

Tissues--Plastic embedment.

Tissues.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Vive la difference : Gunther von Hagens and his maligned copycats / Linda Shulte-Sasse

Life-like humans : playing poker with James Bond and Ted Williams / George J. Annas

What would Dr. William Hunter (1718-83) think about bodies revealed? / Lynda Payne

For Ronnie and Donnie / Myra Christopher

Resisting the allure of the lifelike dead / Christine Montross

Normative objections to posing plastinated bodies : an ethics of bodily repose / Tarris Rosell

More wondrous and more worthy to behold : the future of public anatomy / Geoffrey Rees

Public anatomy : history and potential / Callum F. Ross

Detachment has consequences : a note of caution from medical students' experiences of cadaver dissection / Farr A. Curlin

Craft and narrative in body worlds : an aesthetic consideration / Neil Ward

Being non-biodegradable : the lonely fate of metameat / Catherine belling

The creeping illusionizing of identity from neurobiology to newgenics / Barbara Maria S Stafford.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4214-0357-9

OCLC:

794700349