there was a scandal almost 20 years ago now when a copycat exhibition opened in Paris and strangely all bodies had east-asian traits. There was a petition against it later on as the bodies were found out to be coming from Chinese prisons.
ECPM et Solidarité Chine ont mis en avant les origines troubles des corps présentés, qu’ils soupçonnent d’appartenir à des condamnés à mort et à des prisonniers. « Il s’agit exclusivement de
corps de ressortissants chinois, masculins, jeunes, et ne présentant aucune pathologie
particulière, de sorte que l’hypothèse de la mort naturelle de ces hommes paraît improbable »
I’m pretty sure I saw this exhibition in Las Vegas. I assumed it was the more famous one when I entered, but the more I saw, the more I realised all the bodies were Chinese. Closer inspection of the promotional material put the clues together.
It was fascinating because human anatomy is cool, but knowing they weren’t voluntary donations really soured the experience.
![[OC] Human specimen](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1218c4dc-5344-4f45-8b88-e4e97e892660.jpeg){kind=link}
it wasn’t always “body worlds”!
there was a scandal almost 20 years ago now when a copycat exhibition opened in Paris and strangely all bodies had east-asian traits. There was a petition against it later on as the bodies were found out to be coming from Chinese prisons.
https://worldcoalition.org/fr/une-exposition-de-cadavres-dorigine-douteuse-interdite-a-paris/
https://www.humanite.fr/-/-/lexposition-de-cadavres-our-body-interdite-en-france payWalled credible source
exhibition got banned
I’m pretty sure I saw this exhibition in Las Vegas. I assumed it was the more famous one when I entered, but the more I saw, the more I realised all the bodies were Chinese. Closer inspection of the promotional material put the clues together.
It was fascinating because human anatomy is cool, but knowing they weren’t voluntary donations really soured the experience.