Back معرض عوالم الجسم Arabic Körperwelten German Korpaj Mondoj Esperanto Body Worlds Spanish دنیاهای تن Persian Body Worlds French Body Worlds Irish עולמות הגוף HE Body Worlds Icelandic 人体の不思議展 Japanese
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Body Worlds (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination. Gunther von Hagens developed the preservation process which "unite[s] subtle anatomy and modern polymer chemistry",[1] in the late 1970s.
A series of Body Worlds anatomical exhibitions has toured many countries worldwide, sometimes raising controversies about the sourcing and display of actual human corpses and body parts. Von Hagens maintains that all human specimens were obtained with full knowledge and consent of the donors before they died, but this has not been independently verified,[2] and in 2004 von Hagens returned seven corpses to China because they showed evidence of being executed prisoners.[3] A competing exhibition, Bodies: The Exhibition, openly sources its bodies from "unclaimed bodies" in China, which can include executed prisoners.[2]
In addition to temporary traveling exhibitions, permanent Body Worlds exhibits exists in Berlin, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Guben, and San Jose, CA.[4]
- ^ "Plastination". www.koerperwelten.com. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ a b Ulaby, Neda (11 August 2006). "NPR Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned". Npr.org. Retrieved 25 February 2010.
- ^ Harding, Luke (23 January 2004). "Von Hagens forced to return controversial corpses to China". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "Current Body Worlds exhibitions worldwide – At a glance!". Body Worlds. Retrieved 8 April 2019.