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November 2007, Vol 97, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1998-2000
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.120519

IMAGES OF HEALTH

Plasti-Nation

Lucia M. Tanassi, PhD

Lucia Tanassi is with the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn, and the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to lucia.tanassi@vanderbilt.edu.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

ANATOMICAL EXHIBITIONS have been proliferating in North America since the Los Angeles debut of Body Worlds in 2004. The human bodies in the exhibitions undergo a process of polymer impregnation or plasti-nation that replaces body fluids with various polymers that impede organic decay. Exhibitions continue to be very popular, expanding their presence from museums to science centers and casinos. "Bodies . . . The Exhibition" opened in spring 2007 at the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev, alongside the Folies Bergère and "Xtreme Magic Starring Dirk Arthur."1

The goal of this exhibition is ambitious yet simple: to educate . . . [Full Text]




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