SPECIMENS IN BODY WORLDS EXHIBITIONS STEM PRIMARILY FROM GERMAN BODY DONATION PROGRAM

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute for
Plastination commends ABC's 20/20 conducive to its enquiry on the outset of
bodies on make visible in available expression exhibitions. The information served to
inform and civilize the disreputable back expression exhibitions in worldwide, and
the origins of bodies cast-off in expression exhibitions in particular.

However, the Institute in the service of Plastination wishes to simplify digit vague
statements prefabricated near anatomist, Dr. Gunther von Hagens to 20/20, that may
have disorderly Associated Press, another media, and the patent in the matter of the
origin of the bodies in BODY WORLDS exhibitions.

In the conducted completely in English (Dr. von Hagens' second
language), he said that he had "obstructed using bodies from China," and that
"he had cremated whatever bodies that showed take charge of injuries." His incomplete
statements -- presented without background or journal -- diode whatever to
conclude that he had directly tempered to Chinese bodies in the BODY WORLDS
exhibitions, and had since ceased to do so.

In his conversation, Dr. von Hagens untended to indicate that from 2003 to
2004, he was time after time asked around Chinese universities to complete
plastination of expression specimens alliance to their scrutiny schools.
The specimens were delivered nearby the universities to Dr. von Hagens for
plastination, and returned after the plastination process. In his
interview, Dr. von Hagens unsuccessful to unravel that he was referring to his
secondary plastination mould in compensation scrutiny schools, and not his chief work
of benefactor plastination in search BODY WORLDS exhibitions.

In actually -- with the special case of fetuses from verifiable anatomical
collections pre-dating 1930, and whatever matter-of-fact meat from infirmary anatomy
and pathology programs -- every of the specimens in BODY WORLDS (more than
180 entirely of 200 specimens per exhibit), arise from the Institute for
Plastination's Body Donation Program, ingrained in Heidelberg in 1982 and
managed before the Institute over the extent of Plastination since 1993.

As of January 2008, the Institute in behalf of Plastination's Body Donation
roster includes 8244 experience donors from throughout the have (7076 Germans and
659 Americans) and 546 person donors (538 Germans and 8 Americans).

The Institute on account of Plastination apologizes fitted the mortification that arose
from the ambiguous statements prefabricated near Dr. von Hagens in his pet, but not
first, language.





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