Cadaver Plays Basketball At Anatomical Exhibition (PHOTO)

[matcom]

LOS ANGELES -- Gunther von Hagens, right, gestures towards a cadaver preserved through a process called "plastination" during a news conference as Jeffrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center watches. Hagens' "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," opens Friday. (06/30/04 AP photo)

[GOPisEvil]

1. Los Angeles huh? This is not news for them. The Clippers have been dead

for years now...

[underpants]

2. Give it up Rodman the career is over

:bounce:

[CatWoman]

6. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

:thumbsup:

[Fenris]

3. He still does better at free throws than Shaq.

[DS1]

4. Looks like he played his guts out

btw, nice one - underpants :7

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. The only thing missing

Is the protruding Jordan tongue.

[m-jean03]

7. Gunther Von Hagens

Seems to be as much a showman, a circus-man, a side-show host as he is a scientist.
Look at the theatrical clothes he wears. The black fedora he seems peculiarly attached to. What a strange man he is...

It seems to me, his exhibit and his antics are little more than a continuation of the centuries old tradition of displaying human remains in sideshows and curiosity shops.

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. you know

there's two more balls than there needed to be in that photo

[m-jean03]

9. "Science, Art, or Carnival Sideshow?"

Been searching on the Internet and found thay someone had the same thoughts as myself. Informative, in-depth editorial on Gunther Von Hagens and his strange "art" of plastination.


Science, art or carnival sideshow?

The "Human Body Worlds" exhibit in Cologne

By Dietmar Henning
23 March 2000

The “Human Body Worlds” exhibit has been on display since February 12 at Cologne's Heumarkt market square, where it is scheduled to run until July 31. The exhibit was first presented in Japan, attracting more than two and half million visitors. Only after this success with the public—and the associated commercial success—was the exhibit then put on display in Germany. Two years ago, 800,000 people came to see “Human Body Worlds” in Mannheim. Later the exhibit was visited by 550,000 people in Vienna, and 600,000 in Basle, Switzerland. In terms of numbers of visitors, it is reportedly the largest exposition ever held in Austria.


As in its previous incarnations, the exhibit in Cologne was accompanied by a public debate on the merits or lack of merits of “Human Body Worlds”. In his exposition, anatomy Professor Gunther von Hagens has assembled more than 200 so-called plastinates, including 25 full-body plastinates, i.e., specially prepared human corpses.


Von Hagens developed a special technique for this in which human tissue fluid, i.e., fat and water, is completely replaced by synthetic materials. Depending on which kind of synthetic material is used (silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester), the prepared specimens are firm or flexible, transparent or opaque. In any case, they are durably preserved while retaining their natural surface structure. They “are in the identical condition they were in prior to preservation, all the way down to the microscopic level,” writes von Hagens. “Thus, even microscopic examinations can still be carried out.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/body-m23.shtml