Entries from LAist tagged with 'plastination'
May 25, 2008
Photo by Christine N. Ziemba/LAist It has long been held that the mysteries of the human body be revealed to a select group of degree laden individuals, physicians and scientists alike, whose rigorous scholastic upbringing served as an all access pass to our anatomy and physiology. The layperson, meanwhile, was left to entrust his or her precious and vastly complicated system to the aforementioned guru or, more often then not, lay awake at night......
Continue Reading "Body Worlds' Inventor Dr. Gunther von Hagens Gives Lecture"March 23, 2008
Body Worlds 3 looks at the human body and heart in ways that you've never seen before. / Photo by Christine N. Ziemba for LAist-->Body Worlds 3 & The Story of the Heart opened at the California Science Center last week, and LAist was there to take in the dramatic, creepy and fascinating look at the inner workings of the human body. The former people now on display have undergone a process called "plastination,"......
Continue Reading "Body Worlds 3: Science, Art and a Religous Experience"