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RTBS 01 07 “Plasticize Me: You Too Can Exhibit Human Remains for Entertainment and Profit”
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In this episode, your hosts turn their scalpels on the strange and ethically-murky world of human body exhibitions. We discuss Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who perfected techniques of plastination, a method of preservation that he later applied to whole human cadavers in his exhibition Bodyworlds. We look at von Hagen’s predecessors, like 17th-century Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, as well as his present-day imitators, who have turned these preserved-anatomy exhibits into an international cash business, with side jaunts into the occupational diseases of anatomists and the dangers lurking in your frying pan.
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Manage episode 242400507 series 2545581
In this episode, your hosts turn their scalpels on the strange and ethically-murky world of human body exhibitions. We discuss Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who perfected techniques of plastination, a method of preservation that he later applied to whole human cadavers in his exhibition Bodyworlds. We look at von Hagen’s predecessors, like 17th-century Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, as well as his present-day imitators, who have turned these preserved-anatomy exhibits into an international cash business, with side jaunts into the occupational diseases of anatomists and the dangers lurking in your frying pan.
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