Body Worlds

[Linuts]

So finally Body Worlds has an exhibit in my area!

http://www.scienceworld.bc.ca/whats_on/Body-Worlds/overview.htm

I've been wanting to see this since I heard about it years ago, but I seem to be having trouble finding people to come with me. The overall response I have been getting is that it's disgusting/disturbing...

Anyone else think this is just some mad doctor trying to put on a show in the expense of the dead (willful donors)? Or Is this Art? Is this Science?

Thoughts?

Discuss?

Cookie?

[Mana]

They had this at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago last year, I think (it might have been the year before...). Would have been cool to see, but admission was extra from the museum admission fee, and Roark and I were poor then.

Go for it. And take pictures if you can :D (don't think you can, though...)

[AqueousMessage]

Ugh, I recommend it to anyone, even the squeamish. It's just something you have to see to believe. At the Museum of Science in Boston, you walk into the exhibit hall and there's this man that looks like he's been through a meat slider. It's twelve vertical cuts of man's muscle, bone, tissue, everything.

You just walk through all the parts and just leave each one in awe. It really hits you hard that that is what we look like under the shell.

And to think that natural selection made all this? [/religious sarcasms]

[KiraraKim]

I went to it earlier this year and found it fascinating. I can't think of anyone who went who was unhappy that they did so. So if you have the chance go for it.

[Tyrdium]

Wondered about it, but never went. I'll check it out when I'm back in Boston for winter break.

[LadySage]

I went for my Last Ever Field Trip, senior year biology. It was incredible.

Initially I felt a little squicked out at the idea of going, but I got over it really quickly once I got there. The human body is really amazing inside and out, and this is really the best way to see things short of medical training/cutting people up yourself and going to prison.

[darylcrowe]

Looking at that link, reminds me of a tv show we had over in the Uk (not sure if it was aired in the US?). It was a channel 4 show where there was this anatomist who performed dissections live on tv. That exhibition sounds a bit similar.

[Tremolo]

Looking at that link, reminds me of a tv show we had over in the Uk (not sure if it was aired in the US?). It was a channel 4 show where there was this anatomist who performed dissections live on tv. That exhibition sounds a bit similar.

And for good reason, heh. Dr. Gunther von Hagens was behind both the televised autopsy and the Body Worlds exhibitions.


I kind of wish I'd seen this when it was in London, now. If it ever comes back I'll probably try and go.

[Ritalin]

This looks really cool. I would go to this if it ever came here (unlikely). Even if they don't allow pictures, try taking some anyway! :D

[Mei]

Damn, I wish I had got off my lazy arse and seen this when it was in London : (

I'm worried it would scar me mentally though, knowing what I looked liked underneath the skin -scrabbles- o_o Though I'm sure for the majority, it's a big reality kick to how fragile, intricate and complicated our bodies are. I tend to forget that it's a bit more then "food in this end, out the other!"

[Linuts]

Well glad not as many AA'ers are completely turned off by it :p.

For those interested, I saw a book of this exhibit just the other day.

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Worlds-Anatomical-Exhibition-Bodies/dp/B000AYJDC2

Has a lot of pictures of what to expect at the show.

I'll have to check if photo is allowed, but I'll try to sneak in a few either way ^^.

[Risen Hell Fire]

I really want to see it but I havn't been able to, plus I think I'm too late, it might have left by now.

[Spilled Milk]

It looked interesting..but I'm kinda sqeamish..and i find it a bit unethical..just my opinion. If you ask why i won't reply because i'm not in the mood...

ANYWAY. yeah looks interesting..but I'm fine with 3d models heheh XDD

[KiraraKim]

It looked interesting..but I'm kinda sqeamish..and i find it a bit unethical

All the bodies on display were willful donors.

Here is the information on it

http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/bodydonation/body_donation_program.html

Although if there is a religious reason why you find it unethical I respect that.

[Perfect_Cheezit]

They extended the exhibit over at the Science Museum in St. Paul, so I'm going to get over there one of these weekends to see it.

[animanic_critic]

Its last exhibition came here in my place a few years ago, and it caused quite an commotion because it really showed how the body works from the inside-out - VIVIDLY. My brother went there, and claimed it was intriguing but not for the faint-hearted. If this ever comes here, I'll take my chances.

My brother's word of advice is not to look too closely at the diseased/infected anatomies, because it was nauseating... at least in his eyes.

[Risen Hell Fire]

They extended the exhibit over at the Science Museum in St. Paul, so I'm going to get over there one of these weekends to see it.

Oh so it's still going here in MN? Good, I thought I missed it.