Plasti-nation

Roy Glover, PhD, chief medical adviser for Premier Exhibitions (the promoter firm), says that the exhibition has a remarkable effect on visitors, who are leaving behind their packs of cigarettes and unhealthy eating habits.2 The exhibitions take the visitor through an array of diseased and healthy o...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2007-11, Vol.97 (11), p.1998-2000
Main Author: TANASSI, Lucia M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomy - education
Anatomy - methods
Bioethical Issues
Biological and medical sciences
Body fluids
Cadaver
Cadavers
China
Commerce
Donations
Exhibits
Exhibits as Topic
Human remains
Humans
Images of Health
Medical research
Medical schools
Medical sciences
Minority & ethnic groups
Miscellaneous
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Public radio
Science
United States
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Summary:Roy Glover, PhD, chief medical adviser for Premier Exhibitions (the promoter firm), says that the exhibition has a remarkable effect on visitors, who are leaving behind their packs of cigarettes and unhealthy eating habits.2 The exhibitions take the visitor through an array of diseased and healthy organs, whole bodies, and body parts. Current body procurement trends favor donation, but unclaimed bodies still make up about 20% of bodies used in North American medical schools.5 Unclaimed bodies also tend to be those of institutionalized or socially and economically marginalized individuals (homeless persons or undocumented migrants).6 Moreover, potential claimants may be unable to make a claim because they cannot pay funerary expenses, lack legal proof of their relationship to the deceased, or cannot provide it all in a timely manner; so the use of unclaimed bodies remains problematic in North America as elsewhere.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2007.120519