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contents Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors ix Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective 1 John D. Lantos 1 Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat 17 Catherine Belling 2 Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with James Bond and Ted Williams 25 George J. Annas 3 More Wondrous and More Worthy to Behold: The Future of Public Anatomy 36 Geoffrey Rees 4 Resisting the Allure of the Lifelike Dead 48 Christine Montross 5 Detachment Has Consequences: A Note of Caution from Medical Students’ Experiences of Cadaver Dissection 55 Farr A. Curlin 6 The History and Potential of Public Anatomy 63 Callum F. Ross 7 What Would Dr. William Hunter Think about Bodies Revealed? 73 Lynda Payne vi Contents 8 Vive la differénce: Gunther von Hagens and His Maligned Copycats 79 Linda Schulte-Sasse 9 Normative Objections to Posing Plastinated Bodies: An Ethics of Bodily Repose 90 Tarris Rosell 10 For Ronnie and Donnie 101 Myra Christopher 11 The Creeping Illusionizing of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics 105 Barbara Maria Stafford 12 Craft and Narrative in Body Worlds: An Aesthetic Consideration 115 Neil A. Ward Afterword: Plastination’s Share of Mind 124 Neil A. Ward and John D. Lantos Notes 129 Suggested Further Reading 139 Index 141 ...

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