The Bodies Exhibition

panda100

So are you going to go along to it?

Personally I saw enough cadavers in medical school to last me a life time. I think going along to this expo would bring back too many terrifying memories of me prodding and poking, trying in vain to find the spleen while the anatomy examiner from Hell looked on .

Why would people go along to this for fun??!!

Also I tend to agree with Muris Huston's analysis in The Irish Times about the questionable origin of all these 'bodies'.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0123/1232474674971.html

sam34

i can see why the general public would go along to it, out of curiosity. it's a fantastic opportunity to see inside the human body, and to learn stuff. gory and slightly creepy, certainly, but still intriguing.

but yes, the origin of the bodies and the consent issues are questionable.

mardybumbum

Im just after coming out of it an hour or two ago. I really didnt find it that impressive.
And one of the skeletons was missing his distal phalanx!!!!:eek:

Larianne

I've wanted to see this exhibition for a while just could never get anyone to go with me. Help prepare me for college!

Thanks for the link, I never thought about that.

ZorbaTehZ

I think it's an excellent idea, stimulating a lot of general interest in the medical sciences, wouldn't mind getting a look at it myself if I get a chance.

mardybumbum wrote:

And one of the skeletons was missing his distal phalanx!!!!

Hmm, what are you implying? :rolleyes:

Kevster

Christ, how come I never heard of this? Anatomy is the most interesting subject ever. How long will this be running for?

starn

The Bodies Exhibition is run my Gunther Von Hagens. Whom some might remember from the public autopsy televised on Channel 4 a few years back. Von Hagenens is nothing more than a shill. Who makes a lot of noise about how he is simply educating the public about the human body, while making a lot of money

I wound up at the Bodies Exhibition in New York completely by accident. I found it all very unpleasant. All very sensalionist and having absolutely nothing to with education and lots to do with selling souvenirs.

I had read about before that there were "issues" regarding the way the bodies were obtained but I hadnt heard about executed prisoners before

Kwekubo

starn wrote: »

The Bodies Exhibition is run my Gunther Von Hagens.

No it's not. Von Hagens runs the Body Worlds exhibitions. The one currently going on in Dublin is called Bodies, and is by a completely separate crowd called Premier Exhibitions.

I would tend to agree that Von Hagens is a shill. But at least the bodies on display in his exhibitions were, for the most part, donated freely.

Vorsprung

panda100 wrote: »

Personally I saw enough cadavers in medical school to last me a life time.

In fairness Panda, the ones we dissected weren't playing volleyball

[/quote=panda100]Also I tend to agree with Muris Huston's analysis in The Irish Times about the questionable origin of all these 'bodies'.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0123/1232474674971.html[/QUOTE]

I read that piece, and I agree with you, it's a bit dodge. The guy who did dissections (technically incredible btw) said he examined all of the remains for signs of abuse, torture etc and found none. Wasn't too convinced though.

tallaght01

Sorry guys.

This exhibition is apparently some kind of MCD even that we're not supposed to discuss or something, so I think I have to lock it.

Sorry.