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Discuss “BODIES...The Exhibition”

BODIES...The Exhibition brings to life, with special attention to detail, the inner workings of the human body through an innovative preservation process called plastination.

The exhibit is organized into a handful of sections that provide a closer look at the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, and reproductive systems of the body.

The exhibit features exquisitely dissected human specimens and real organs. The bodies are delicately preserved so that the viewer can see each nerve, blood vessel, and bone.

According to the Carnegie Science Center’s webpage for the exhibit, the process of plastination was first invented by Dr. Gunther Von Hagens in 1977. This process involves four main steps.

In the first step, the tissues of the body are...

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Comment 1. anon
Nov 20, 2007 at 03:34 AM Report comment

where do these bodies come from?

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