Description
Book SynopsisContributions from bioethicists, historians, physicians, anatomists, theologians, and novelists dig deeply into issues that compel, upset, and unsettle us all.
Trade Review"A rich survey of the issues provoked by the public display of plastinated corpses backed up by an impressive range of scholarship." (Alastair V. Campbell, author of The Body in Bioethics)"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective
Chapter 1. Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat
Chapter 2. Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with James Bond and Ted Williams
Chapter 3. More Wondrous and More Worthy to Behold: The Future of Public Anatomy
Chapter 4. Resisting the Allure of the Lifelike Dead
Chapter 5. Detachment Has Consequences: A Note of Caution from Medical Students' Experiences of Cadaver Dissection
Chapter 6. The History and Potential of Public Anatomy
Chapter 7. What Would Dr. William Hunter Think about Bodies Revealed?
Chapter 8. Vive la differénce: Gunther von Hagens and His Maligned Copycats
Chapter 9. Normative Objections to Posing Plastinated Bodies: An Ethics of Bodily Repose
Chapter 10. For Ronnie and Donnie
Chapter 11. The Creeping Illusionizing of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics
Chapter 12. Craft and Narrative in Body Worlds: An Aesthetic Consideration
Afterword: Plastination's Share of Mind
Notes
Suggested Further Reading
Index
