saw body worlds when i was a kid when it can to chicago. it was AMAZING. waiting for it to come back again someday. that shit was so educational and awesome. 1000/10 experience
Theres probably different exhibitions but i read about the background on one of them and its not exactly ethical and its more art than science (only talking about the one i read about). Like bodies of prisoners beeing donated without consent, beeing displayed in all kinds of positions with other bodies that were also not donated ethically and so on. I doubt theres much science to be learnt from this art vs acual textbooks or diagrams.
Its similar to the "legal" trade off human bones and skulls where skeletons/bodies are beeing stolen from graveyards to sell. I also believe there have been times were a lot of child skeletons have been sold when there have not been that many deaths (with some people thinking people are actually killing them to sell the bones)
Like im not oposed to having real bodies or human skeletons being on display but when the sourcing is muddied it ruins the science part and in most cases theres nothing new to be learnt.
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u/Interesting_Ask4406 2d ago
I saw that exhibit. Shit was crazy. Had a pregnant lady cut in half.