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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

A Gruesome Exhibit

I don't know what to think about this:

The controversial ‘‘Body Worlds 2: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human
Bodies’’ is coming to the Museum of Science in Boston on July 30 and will run
through January 7.

On exhibit will be human bodies that have been preserved through the process of plastination, where water and fat is removed from tissues and polymers are injected to prevent decomposition....

...In one of the featured exhibits from the original Body Worlds is a male body that has been skinned sitting on the body of a skinned horse: the man holds his brain in one hand and the horse’s brain in the other. Another exhibit features the body of a pregnant woman who died of natural causes; her uterus is partially cut open to reveal a preserved fetus inside....


One part of my brain says "wow," the other side says "yuck."

I'll be interested to see how the public responds.


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