Human Body World
The Human Body World attracted many people all over the world by its famous exhabit of plastination of human bodies. The exhabit was so appealing and fasinating that “two years ago 800,000 people came to see the Human Body Worlds in Mannheims.” This exhabit was a huge attraction to people. The Body Worlds travels all over the world and has become one of the most popular exhabits that interest many individual. The exhabit catches peoples attention mainly under the science, art and entertainment behind it. Being able to capture an antomy of an invdividual and platinate it, is not an easy job to accomplish. Thats the reason why it is categorize under science, art and entertainment.
The exhabit is considerd science as one of the three categories is because the human body can actually be plastinate and not rot away. It is considered expanding your learning to a better understanding of the human body. Being able to observe the body from within, scientist could study and comprehen so much faster with actual experience. It will help those who are in medical school or in the medical field to get hands on experience and learn more about the antom. Gunther von Hagens is a scienctist who organized “200 plastinates, including 25 full-body plastinates” also known as human corpses. He feels plastinating dead people will help other people understand more about the amazing human body with hands on experience where as learning from the pictures in a text book.
The exhabit also falls under a form of art. Art can be defined as “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” (dictionary) Therefore the exhabits of plastination of human bodies is a form of art and it takes a true skilled workmanship to execute it perfectly. Art is free, art has no boundaries and as a result Professor Hagens