The Institute for Plastination Clearinghouse

As the pioneering plastination center and public anatomical exhibitor, the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany also serves as a clearinghouse for information about the entire field of plastination and exhibition of human remains. We present such information about the Institute and our work on our website to be part of the public domain. Frequently, we are given information by researchers and other third parties that we also present on the website to be part of the public domain. These include articles, scientific studies, text book material, videos, images, and other documents about the field of plastination and public anatomical exhibitions. This information and links to this information are shared freely and transparently with verified journalists, researchers, academics, activists, government authorities, and policy makers who request information, as part of our duties as a clearinghouse of information on the science and field of plastination. We take no positions and offer no statements on this third party information but serve only as a clearinghouse of information on the entire science and field of plastination, of which the IFP is the leading authority. We leave it to those availing themselves of this information to research the matter and issues, conduct due diligence, make their own findings, draw their own conclusions, and ultimately add to the canon of literature about the science and field of plastination.

 If you are seeking information on special topics related to the field of plastination, please contact the IFP Press Office.

NEWS

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DOWNLOADS

• BODY WORLDS and the Science of Plastination
  
• Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS The Exhibition of Donor Bodies – Body Worlds
• Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS Briefing on Wrongful Alllegations and Reports by Media on BODY WORLDS Exhibitions
• Cadaver procurement for anatomy teaching: legislative challenges in a transition-related environment – Medicine, Science and the Law
• Bodies Impolitic? Reading Cadavers - International Journal of Communication
• China Turns Out Mummified Bodies for Displays – New York Times
• Getting Beyond the Plastinated Political Economy of ‘Late Modern Cannibalism’1 - Clippinger Laboratories 111, Athens Ohio USA
• Experiencing Body Worlds: Voyeurism, Education, or Enlightenment? - J Med Humanit
• The Body Worlds Effect – ASTC Dimensions
• Body Worlds and Body Worlds 2: Towards the Creation of an Instructive Museum of Man - University of Chicago
• Le Monde du Corps, exposition anatomique de corps humains véritable, de Gunther von Hagens : Straégies brouillées pour un succés assuré – Université du Québec à Montrèal
• On Gruesome Corpses, Gestalt Plastinates* and Mandatory Interment – BODY WORLDS Exhibition Catalogue
• BODY WORLDS – Original & Authentic
• Global Health Nexus – New York University College of Dentistry
• Body Worlds: clinical detachment and anatomical awe - Sociology of Health & Illness
• Gunther von Hagens and Body Worlds Part 1: The Anatomist as Prosektor and Proplastiker - The Anatomical Record
• Gunther von Hagens and Body Worlds Part 2: The Anatomist as Priest and Prophet - The Anatomical Record
• Survey in the US on anatomical exhibitions
  
• United States Patent 1981

LINKS to articles

• Capital punishment and anatomy: History and ethics of an ongoing association
• A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
• The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy
• Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine
• Körperwelten/Body Worlds
• Exhibition Reviews
• Visions of Anatomy: Exhibitions and Dense Bodies
• Critics question origin of bodies
• Bodies in body shows
  
• Post-mortal punishment
  
• Cadaver Questions
  
  

• New York Times, Oct 25, 2006
• Body Worlds Visitor Experience

other LINKS

•  Anatomy Resources