Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Jespersen, T. Christine, 1964-
2. Rodriguez, Alicita, 1972-
3. Starr, Joseph, 1969-

Description

1. viii, 267 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "This interdisciplinary volume analyzes "Body Worlds" from a number of perspectives, describing the legal, ethical, sociological, and religious concerns which seem to accompany the exhibition as it travels the world"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Tissues > Plastic embedment
2. Human figure in art
3. Cadaver in art
4. Plastination
5. Hagens, Gunther von
6. Tissues > Plastic embedment > Exhibitions
7. Human figure in art > Exhibitions
8. Exhibits as Topic
9. Plastic Embedding
10. Cadaver in art > Exhibitions
11. Plastination > Exhibitions
12. Cadaver
13. Exhibition catalogs
14. Medicine in the Arts
15. Human anatomy > Exhibitions
16. Human Body
17. Hagens, Gunther von > Exhibitions
18. Anatomy
19. Medicine and art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Introduction / Alicita Rodríguez and Joseph Starr -- Plastinates' narrative / Jospeh Starr -- Afterlife, but not as we know it : melancholy, post-biological ontology and plastinated bodies / Natalia Lizama -- Take me : the rhetoric of donation / Aviva Briefel -- Individualist etiologies : environmental health, biological risk, and medical display / Rebecca Onion -- Persistence of tradition in anatomical museums / Stephen Johnson -- Illuminating the soul : panopticism and the freak show / Pedro Ponce -- Amethyst seal : anatomy and identity in Bentham and von Hagens / Patricia Pierson -- Affecting bodies / Natalie Loveless -- Worrying about democratic values : Body Worlds in German context, 1996-2004 / Peter M. McIsaac -- Echo of German horror films / Alexandra Ludewig -- Touching the corpse : the unmaking of memory in the Body Museum / Uli Linke -- Forced impregnation and masculinist utopia / T. Christine Jespersen and Alicita Rodríguez -- Politics of fetal display / Christian DuComb -- Corpse-less : a battle with abjection / Elizabeth Simon Ruchti -- Anatomy without integrity / Ruth Levy Guyer -- Adoration, veneration, plastination : theo-liturgical reflections / Paul Wojda -- Twilife : the art and science of consuming death / Lucia Tanassi -- Emergent bodies : human, all too human, posthuman / Ara Osterweil and David Baumflek.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.