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Bodies: The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. [1] It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. [2] It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995). The exhibit displays ...
The exhibit states that its purpose and mission is the education of laypeople about the human body, leading to better health awareness. [5] Each Body Worlds exhibition [6] contains approximately 25 full-body plastinates with expanded or selective organs shown in positions that enhance the role of certain systems.
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibitions are the original, precedent-setting public anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies, and the only anatomical exhibits that use donated bodies, willed by donors to the Institute for Plastination for the express purpose of serving the Body Worlds mission to educate the public about health and anatomy.
The exhibition, and Hagens' subsequent exhibitions Body Worlds 2, 3 and 4, had received more than 26 million visitors all over the world as of 2008. [ 16 ] To produce specimens for a Body Worlds exhibition, Hagens employs around 100 people at his laboratory in Guben, Germany.
The Visible Human Project is an effort to create a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body, in order to facilitate anatomy visualization applications. It is used as a tool for the progression of medical findings, in which these findings link anatomy to its audiences. [ 1 ]
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Exhibitions typically last for less than 1 year and usually require a separate paid admission fee. [6] Past exhibitions at MSI have included: Titanic: The Exhibition, [52] which was the largest display of relics from the wreck of RMS Titanic. Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, a view into the human body through use of plastinated human specimens.
The Body Human is a series of specials produced by Tomorrow Entertainment/Medcom Company and telecast by CBS, [1] between 1977 and 1984. [2] They were produced and directed by Robert E. Fuisz and Alfred R. Kelman, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966 for The Face of a Genius. [3]