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The Institute for Plastination Responds to the Bishop of Manchester's Media Blitz, Assertions, and Allegations About BODY WORLDS Anatomical Exhibition Coming to Manchester
Date:2/5/2008

iversity of Kassel, Germany, updated in May 2006, found that 20% of visitors said that they were more willing to donate their organs after visiting the exhibition.

The Bishop also implies that visitors to BODY WORLDS are somehow coerced into registering as donors with the Institute for Plastination's Body Donation Programme before they leave the exhibition. This is patently untrue. In fact, those interested in considering becoming body donors can choose to pick up a postcard or register online at http://www.bodyworlds.com to request further information from the IfP about the body donation programme. Donors retain the right to revoke the bequeathal at any time.

It is disingenuous for The Bishop to intimate that anatomical exhibitions such as BODY WORLDS have origins in the Victorian freak show. Anatomical exhibitions originated in churches during the Renaissance, when the visionaries of that period believed that man's life was worthy of study and contemplation, and church leaders viewed anatomy and dissection as a window into God's work.

The Catholic Church in Germany has followed the work of Dr. von Hagens for more than two decades. In 1983, church leaders there asked Dr. von Hagens to plastinate and preserve the heel bone of St. Hildegard of Bingen, a 10th century beatified mystic revered in Germany. After Pope John Paul's death, there were many discussions in Europe surrounding preserving the body, and especially the heart, of the Pope through Plastination.

Though the mission of BODY WORLDS is the health education of lay people, it provokes philosophical and religious reflection in visitors. In the October 2007 Journal of Medical Humanities, authors Dr. Charleen Moore of the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology at the University of Texas and Dr. C. McKenzie Brown of Trinity University, Texas who examined more than 70,000 visitor comments about BODY WORLDS wrote: "The vast ma
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