- BEIJING, (AFP) - Outrage
is growing over a factory processing dead bodies in northeast China for
a German company that puts them on display in major European cities, state
media says.
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- The plant, near Dalian city, is used by Body Worlds which
was founded by Guenther von Hagens, the German anatomist who has created
a stir with his exhibitions of flayed human corpses in a variety of poses,
the Beijing Morning Post reported.
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- According to reports in the Chinese media, the plant
imports more than 100 corpses from abroad every year, and reprocesses them
into about 40 plastinated works of art.
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- Chen Tianmin, a medical scholar, criticised the idea
of commercializing dead bodies and told the Beijing Morning Post they should
be used only for research purposes.
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- Body Worlds has arranged exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin,
London and a number of Asian cities.
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- "The aim of the exhibition is to inform visitors
and to open up the opportunity particularly to medical laymen to better
understand their body and its functions," the company says on its
website.
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