BODY WORLDS articles

May 10, 2007

The most recent issue of The American Journal of Bioethics 7 (4) has several articles devoted to the discussion of Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS exhibition. Articles are available by subscription only.

TOC:
Lawrence Burns, “Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS: Selling Beautiful Education” p. 12 – 23
Anita L. Allen, “No Dignity in BODY WORLDS: A Silent Minority Speaks” p. 24 – 25
Jane Maienschein & Richard Creath, “BODY WORLDS as Education and Humanism” p. 26 – 27
D. Gareth Jones & Maja I. Whitaker, “The Tenuous World of Plastinates” p. 27 – 29
Ruth Levy Guyer, “Metamorphosis: Beautiful Education to Smarmy Edutainment” p. 30 – 31
Rosemarie Tong, “The Virtues of Blurring Boundaries in BODY WORLDS” p. 32 – 33
Catherine Myser, “Taking Public Education Seriously: BODY WORLDS, the Science Museum, and Democratizing Bioethics Education” p. 34 – 36
Lucia M. Tanassi, “Responsibility and Provenance of Human Remains” p. 36 – 38
Evelyn M. Tenenbaum & Jenean M. Taranto, “BODY WORLDS: Choosing to Be Immortalized as an Educational Specimen” p. 38 – 40
Nora L. Jones, “A Visual Anthropological Approach to the “Edutainment” of BODY WORLDS” p. 40 – 42
Stuart J. Youngner, “The Stakes Are Not Very High in This Game” p. 42 – 43
Laurence B. McCullough, “The Abstract Nature of Anatomic Construction and its Advantages: Scientific Medicine and Human Dignity” p. 44 – 45
Richard Wassersug, “Awesome and Captivating, But Is it Really Educational?” p. 45 – 47