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On Jan 26, 2008 3:58 PM, Wayne Watson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Well, hold the phone, Mabel! Not all is lost. Try this article
> <
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/health/22cada.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
> >.
> Who better than teenagers to get into cadavers?
>
> Paul Orselli wrote:
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> > The Californa State Assembly recently approved legislation that would
> > regulate exhibitions that display actual human bodies.
> > <http://blog.orselli.net/2008/01/end-of-human-body-exhibitions.html>
> >
> > Personally, I found the traveling Body Worlds exhibition fascinating,
> > if a little creepy. However, no matter what your feelings about the
> > particular content of certain exhibitions, should governments really
> > be determining whether a museum should present a particular exhibition
> > or not?
> >
>

The important point of comparison to exhibitions of plastinated bodies is
that the people whose bodies are being dissected by the high school students
gave their consent for such use.  All that California is asking for is that
exhibitions of remains get the same consent.  That does not seem like it is
going to limit our freedom to exhibit such things.

Dave Smith


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David L. Smith
Da Vinci Science Center
Allentown, PA
http://www.davinci-center.org

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