"Bodies Revealed" Museum Exhibit

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Our local museum has this exhibit for a couple months

sciencemuseumok.org/bodies-revealed

Is something like this OK to go to? I think it would be questionable to donate a body for an exhibit that charges admission to view even if it is for education. I find it fascinating yet at the same time it doesn’t seem right to preserve human bodies like this
 
I think it’s creepy and wrong to use real human bodies in this way. Anatomy labs and dissection for med students, okay, but dead bodies on display for profit to the general public? I don’t like it.
 
JimG said:
I think it’s creepy and wrong to use real human bodies in this way. Anatomy labs and dissection for med students, okay, but dead bodies on display for profit to the general public? I don’t like it.
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I agree…it doesn’t sit right with me but on the other hand, it would also be “neat” to see. It has me curious and I know it can be used for education…but should it?
 
CatholicSooner said:
I agree…it doesn’t sit right with me but on the other hand, it would also be “neat” to see. It has me curious and I know it can be used for education…but should it?
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Having made the mistake of going to one of these… it’s not neat. It ends up being somewhat stomach turning. And the Bodies Revealed exhibit in particular the OP references has repeatedly been accused of using executed Chinese prisoners in its exhibition who did not give their permission to be displayed before death… which raises even more ethical concerns.
 
JimG said:
I think it’s creepy and wrong to use real human bodies in this way. Anatomy labs and dissection for med students, okay, but dead bodies on display for profit to the general public? I don’t like it.
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Yeah, gotta go with this opinion.
 
This is a very gray area to me.

On one hand, this is an educational purpose. If everyone donated their bodies specifically for this purpose, I guess its ok. (Still creepy, but ok)

But I would have lots of reservations if they bodies were not donated for that specific purpose and/or if someone was making a ton of money off it (out of the ordinary for a non-profit)
 
I read the wiki article and could not find out where exactly he gets his bodies. There had been some speculation on the donation and permissions.

Also, the “Artist” who made the exhibit was questionable. I suggest you read the attached articles for his wikipedia page.

I did attend one exhibit before I knew much about it. It’s interesting, especially for someone like me who only was interested in anatomy as far as knowing how to draw it for art. But my husband is a doctor and was just ‘okay’ with it.
 
Creepy to the max. If you want educational, get Gray’s Anatomy. The textbook, not the TV series.
 
At the very least, disrespectful to the bodies’ former “owners.”

IMINWHO.

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OP, FYI, if you search for the term “Body Worlds” you’ll find a bunch of old CAF articles about this topic, e.g. Body Worlds

I personally chose not to attend when this thing came through my town. It does not sit right with me at all.
 
These corpses should have been buried in an appropriate fashion. Using corpses for entertainment purposes is certainly NOT okay with me.

I don’t care if permission by the decedents or their heirs was given or not, this is morally reprehensible and I will not be a party to it.

I have no problem with organ donors (I have that on my drivers license), or with medical students using corpses for study purposes. But this exhibition is simply ghoulish entertainment.
 
Padres1969 said:
Having made the mistake of going to one of these… it’s not neat.** It ends up being somewhat stomach turning.** And the Bodies Revealed exhibit in particular the OP references has repeatedly been accused of using executed Chinese prisoners in its exhibition who did not give their permission to be displayed before death… which raises even more ethical concerns.
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i can imagine it would!
The thought that sadistic streaks might be triggered in some viewers bothers me, along with subsequent acts, stupid though that may sound.
Mike1955 said:
I have no problem with organ donors (I have that on my drivers license), or with medical students using corpses for study purposes. But this exhibition is simply ghoulish entertainment.
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It certainly is.
DaveBj said:
Creepy to the max. If you want educational, get Gray’s Anatomy. The textbook, not the TV series.
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Good suggestion.

If an exhibition like this is considered to be so beneficial, surely the vast majority, if not all, of the exhibits could be reproduced using various plastic molding and CNC laser cutting etc techniques. Apart, of course, from the “pornographic” ones which shouldn’t even be there.
To get returns against manufacturing costs, multiple exhibitions could be produced.
No need for any cadavers or parts of cadavers. 🤷

This sort of thing must already have been done.
 
Thanks for the replies.

So through some research, it appears that “Bodies Revealed” was started by Roy Glover…the same guy that start Bodies: The Exhibition. Mr. Glover openly told NPR that they don’t know where the bodies for The Exhibition came…just htat they were from CHina and they weren’t willing people.

The Bodies Revealed group that I assume evolved from the Bodies: Exhibition group state that all bodies were willingly donated but I have my serious doubts about it.

I definitely will not be attending this display and will be sending a complaint to the science museum
 
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