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Author:   John D. Lantos, MD (Director of Pediatric Bioethics, Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781421402710

ISBN 10:   1421402718
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   28 November 2011
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective Chapter 1. Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat Chapter 2. Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with James Bond and Ted Williams Chapter 3. More Wondrous and More Worthy to Behold: The Future of Public Anatomy Chapter 4. Resisting the Allure of the Lifelike Dead Chapter 5. Detachment Has Consequences: A Note of Caution from Medical Students' Experiences of Cadaver Dissection Chapter 6. The History and Potential of Public Anatomy Chapter 7. What Would Dr. William Hunter Think about Bodies Revealed? Chapter 8. Vive la differénce: Gunther von Hagens and His Maligned Copycats Chapter 9. Normative Objections to Posing Plastinated Bodies: An Ethics of Bodily Repose Chapter 10. For Ronnie and Donnie Chapter 11. The Creeping Illusionizing of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics Chapter 12. Craft and Narrative in Body Worlds: An Aesthetic Consideration Afterword: Plastination's Share of Mind Notes Suggested Further Reading Index

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A rich survey of the issues provoked by the public display of plastinated corpses backed up by an impressive range of scholarship. (Alastair V. Campbell, author of The Body in Bioethics)

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John D. Lantos, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and director of the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. He is the author of Neonatal Bioethics and The Lazarus Case, both also published by Johns Hopkins.

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