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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / July 2006Go See Body Worlds Exhibit!
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp I saw this in Denver. There are 3 separate exhibits. One is in Houston, Janet. Another is in St. Paul. Ours will be going to Boston, Alex & Araik. Another will go to Vancouver. This is probably the most fascenating exhibit I have ever seen. There are real human bodies & body parts, posed & dissected in many different ways so you can see exactly where the various components lie & their relationships to each other. There are also cases of organs & other parts. Some you can hold in your hand. The water has been replaced by plastic. You can see every nerve & tendon & how they move with different poses. The reason I'm posting here is mainly because you can see exactly what cancer looks like. I saw a normal lung, a smoker's lung & a coal miner's lung. The smoker's was blacker than the coal miner's. A healthy female breast & one with cancer. I also saw liver mets & other cancers. The components of the face & mouth were also exhibited. You can see much of this in the full-body exhibits as well. You can get as close to the full bodies as you wish. I also bought their DVD & book. I took a friend who had suffered a mild stroke. We saw brains impacted by stroke & hearts that had suffered heart attacks, fatal & not. Many other healthy & diseased parts. A pregnant woman with baby in womb. If this comes to your city, see it early in its engagement. The Denver one is very crowded toward the end - even at 10:30 PM - & is about to go 24/7 to accommodate the crowds. The exhibits typically go to the Science Museums. Some of my friends have gone multiple times & I fully understand why. I hope no one is offended by this post. No commercial intent. I'm thinking with summer travel, some of you may visit a city where this exhibit is. It's worth the 2-4 hours. I saw young children who seemed interested & respectful. Figgertoes My son saw it in Philly, was glad he went but he has no desire to see it again. I can't wait to see it. The controversy I have heard that some of the participants didn't know they would be exhibited or were homeless, none of these allegations have been proven and the educational benefits are definitely tipping the scales for me to see the exhibit.. I am fascinated by it. I see my daughter's grad school already has tickets perhaps I can tag along with her group. Years ago, when I was in nursing school we could assist or observe in surgery, now that most surgery is done non invasively I know health care professionals do not get to see human anatomy as we could during surgery. I see this exhibit as a huge educational benefit. Was the DVD worth the money? Thanks for sharing, I will share my reactions after attending. > My son saw it in Philly, was glad he went but he has no desire to see > it again. I can't wait to see it. The controversy I have heard that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks for sharing, I will share my reactions after attending. I haven't watched the DVD yet, but I'll let you know. Now that I look at it, it appears it plays on computers, not TV. The book was $30 & the DVD $20 - hmmm...then they gave me a 10% discount I hadn't noticed. The book is excellent & has extensive writeups concerning differing opinions on death, dying, the plastination process, legalities, customs requirements. It's far clearer than any anatomy/physiology text I've seen - but no index. There are 3 exhibits making the rounds but sometimes they mix them up a bit. In any case, I've seen maybe 1/3. There is a horse I haven't seen - we got the camels. This started in Europe. I just read in the book - there are quotes from some body donors & it does say some are accepted from government agencies such as the Social Welfare Office. I'd rather they be donated knowingly. Nothing is told of the donors except date. I would have been interested in age & sometimes in what they died of. I was taken at how small the people looked without their blubber. When I went, I literally had to watch where I planted each foot most of the time - it was that crowded. But I eventually saw everything up close & it was worth it. I missed corporate night & several other pportunities. Go early! Fig > http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp > [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > Figgertoes Hi Fig, We were actually at the Houston museum where the exhibit is. They wanted an extra $13 per person over the $15 each we had already paid to see the museum, butterflies, IMAX and planetarium show. I had read about the exhibit in the Sunday papers quite a while ago. We saw some of the "bodies" outside the exhibit and it kind of made me nauseous, so we decided to save the $26. Ipunty said he saw it and didn't think it was worth it. I guess everyone has different tastes. I did love the butterfly place. Butterflies are so pretty. They are too stupid to worry and they don't have cancer. If they would have let me, I'd have moved in there permanently. I smiled the whole time I was in the butterfly place. Janet  Signature----------- Janet Wilder The Road Princess http://janetwilder.blogspot.com We read some of the hype in the papers here in Toronto and had someone rave about it to us at a social function, so we went to see it. It was expensive ($25 each for 40 minutes). I found it interesting, but it certainly didn't live up to the hype. Basically, it's a bunch of chopped up cadavers dried out and covered in shellac. The fact that some of them have been posed holding baseball bats and wearing figure skates didn't add to the experience for me. I was most interested in the metastasized lungs and the sectioned fat guy and some of the other diseased corpses and organs. The plastic process almost covers the smell, there's no smell of formaldehyde or rotting flesh, it sort of just smells like rancid butter. If you can get in there when it's not too crowded so you can get close and take your time examining stuff, it's interesting on a biological level. Just don't get your expectations too high and be aware that no matter if you think you're a tough guy, it is kind of creepy looking at roomsful of flayed human flesh. -JD >> http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp >> [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > Janet |
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