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A Visual Anthropological Approach to the “Edutainment” of BODY WORLDS

advances such as pacemakers and artificial hips and knees (Moore and Brown 2004a). The question that remains is whether the educational value of the exhibit is sufficient to meet the requirements of the UAGA or whether its entertainment aspect demeans human dignity and undermines its educational value. BODY WORLDS displays the human body in a manner that fully comports with societal requirements as incorporated in the UAGA because it respects human identity and personhood. The interior self is revealed in an aesthetic presentation that exposes the individual features of real human cadavers (Moore and Brown 2004a). These exhibits also allow the donors to contribute to human knowledge by providing the public with access to the intricate details of human anatomy. Unlike the unacceptable uses of the human body set forth previously, this exhibit pays tribute to the beauty and uniqueness of our human selves. Burns believes that BODY WORLDS compromises human dignity because the plastinates lose their own identities and become creations of von Hagens. Gunther von Hagens poses the bodies, sometimes to enhance their educational value and sometimes for artistic reasons (Moore and Brown 2004b). He also signs his name to his works (Burns 2007, 9). These acts do not destroy human dignity. On the contrary, the donors maintain their dignity by exercising their choice to become plastinates, a choice that some may find preferable to decay or cremation (Moore and Brown 2004b, 18). The choice to plastinate promotes the “critical interests” of the donor because choice allows the donor to determine the method of body disposition and how he or she will be remembered (Lewis 2002). Plastination also enables donors to continue the human mission of educating others, even after death (Moore and Brown 2004a). The fact that the donors were once living humans attracts and educates the public in a way that only real human cadavers could achieve (Moore and Brown 2004a). Individuals should be allowed to freely choose plastination. Their plastinated bodies serve as a legacy that will memorialize them and reinforce the humanness that each possesses—a tribute to their uniquely human identity.