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3/9/09

'Body Worlds' Book Co-Editor To Speak At St. Lawrence

CANTON - The exhibition of plastinated cadavers called "Body Worlds," by Gunther von Hagens, created a sensation. The co-editor of a book of essays about the exhibition, Anatomy of Body Worlds, Alicita Rodríguez, will give a talk about the phenomenon on Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of Griffith Arts Center at St. Lawrence University. The event is open to the public, free of charge.

Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, the "Body Worlds" exhibition has been visited by more than 25 million people at museums and science centers across North America, Europe and Asia. Preserved through von Hagens' unique process of plastination, the bodies shown in the controversial exhibit are posed to mimic life and art, from a striking re-creation of Rodin's The Thinker, to a preserved horse and its human rider; a basketball player; and a reclining pregnant woman, complete with fetus in its eighth month. The interdisciplinary book Anatomy of Body Worlds, published in 2009, analyzes the exhibition from a number of perspectives, describing the legal, ethical, sociological and religious concerns which accompany the exhibition as it travels the world.

Rodríguez is a fiction writer and a creative writing professor at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. She is also the fiction editor for the literary journal Marginalia.

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More: Information about the book Anatomy of Body Worlds

"Body Worlds" Exhibition Web site