Body World

Moral or Immoral?

By Atonomist Dr. Gunther von Hagens

PLASTINATION

Invented 1970’s• Preserve body's• Water and fat replaced by certain plastics.• They can be touched• No smell or decay

ISSUES

• Religious• Political/Legal• Educational• Personal

RELIGIOUS

• Catholic/Jewish• Not respectful of human body

Political/Legal• Getting body's from unknown (illegal)

origins...prisoners in China... Body's returned after finding out.

• Laws/Permits• Human/Animal Rights• Willing donation of bodies• Make Profit

EDUCATIONAL

• Exhibits: Brain, Heart, Mirror of Time, Sex, Muscles, Etc...

• Its purpose is to educate people about human body.

Personal

• What do you think? Moral or Immoral?• What makes this any different then when

Leonardo de Vinci cut open corpses to learn more about the human anatomy?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Worlds#Controversies

2. www.bodyworks.com3. www.images.google.ca/bodyworld