The Beauty Of The Dead

"The opportunity anatomical dissection of the human mind to compare it with the living dead, mangled things with things intact, things destroyed with things that evolve, and opens to us the depth of nature more than any other form or consideration. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Taboos and curiosity of the human body dissection represents a triumph of reason over natural aversion to maul, to cut open the human body. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is today the most famous Renaissance artist and scientist, made anatomical dissections were the basis for the very detailed and realistic anatomical drawings. Currently out of purely medical field, most of us reach these anatomical knowledge based on illustrations in biology textbooks or by plaster or plastic models. Rarely in our daily lives have the opportunity (perhaps unpleasant) to see with our own eyes the internal organs of a corpse.

In 1995, Dr. Gunther von Hagens opened in Tokyo the exhibition "Body Worlds?, Which were first bodies (cadavers) and human bodies preserved through a technique known as plastination. Developed by von Hagens in 1977, the plastination process involves replacing bodily fluids and fat with polymers such as silicone, epoxy or polyester resins. The type of polymer used determines the mechanical (flexible or hard) and optical (transparent or opaque) of the sample. Regardless of the polymer used, each sample retains all its natural features to the microscopic level. The exhibition "Body Worlds? has been presented in more than 50 museums, takes visitors on a breathtaking journey through the educational and human body, where you can see the muscles, bones and tendons, or how our body responds to movement and physical exertion. Definitely "Body Worlds? is not for everyone, is a crude sample, but absolutely fascinating, inevitably appreciate the human body so it is, a machine incredibly organized, able to do much with incredible ease and efficiency. Dr. Gunther von Hagens - History Channel A look at the exhibition "Body Worlds", video taken from the History Channel in Portuguese.

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