Editing Body Worlds (section)

===Ethical concerns about cadaver displays===
In an ethical analysis, Thomas Hibbs, professor of ethics and culture at [[Baylor University]], a private [[Baptist]]-affiliated institution, compared cadaver displays to pornography, in that they reduce the subject to "the manipulation of body parts stripped of any larger human significance."<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Thomas S. Hibbs |date=Winter 2007 |url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/soa/bodyworlds.htm |title=Dead Body Porn: The Grotesqueries of the "Body World" Exhibit  |magazine=The New Atlantis |access-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905170629/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/soa/bodyworlds.htm |archive-date=5 September 2008 }}</ref>

In a 2006 lecture entitled "Plasti-Nation: How America was Won",<ref>{{cite web |author=Plasti-Nation: How America Was Won |url=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sphpod/sphpod/2006/07/plastination_how_america_was_w_1.html |title=Public Lectures: Plasti-Nation: How America Was Won Archives |publisher=Blog.lib.umn.edu |access-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628063801/http://blog.lib.umn.edu/sphpod/sphpod/2006/07/plastination_how_america_was_w_1.html |archive-date=28 June 2010 }}</ref> Lucia Tanassi, professor of medical ethics and anthropology at [[Vanderbilt University Medical Center]], explored questions for ethicists regarding this new scientific frontier. Tanassi called it provocative that ethics committees have contributed to the popularization of the exhibits without setting forth any process of a line of inquiry, pointing to an ethics report from the California Science Center. As part of that review, bioethicist Hans Martin Sass was sent to Heidelberg to match donor consents with death certificates.<ref name="npr"/>

Concerns have been expressed about the educational aspects, especially the inclusion of these displays for school field trips. St. Louis Archbishop [[Raymond Leo Burke|Raymond Burke]] strongly suggested that Catholic schools avoid scheduling field trips, stating that parents, and not children, should retain the freedom of deciding whether or not their children will view the exhibit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4201800&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 |title=St. Louis Ticket Broker &#124; St Louis Cardinals & St Louis Blues Tickets &#124; Mizzou Football Tickets from The Ticket Guys |publisher=Myfoxstl.com |access-date=27 February 2013 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623080125/http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4201800&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 |archive-date=23 June 2008 }}</ref> Concerned with how "some kids process" these "graphic" images, Des McKay, school superintendent in [[Abbotsford, British Columbia|Abbotsford]], British Columbia (near [[Greater Vancouver]]), barred field trips to exhibits of plasticized human beings.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vancouver |first=The |url=http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=f89ece3d-f0e0-4d55-aa2e-746a9fcd9079&k=63910 |title=Abbotsford schools barred from taking ghoulish field trip |publisher=Canada.com |date=1 October 2006 |access-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208231942/http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=f89ece3d-f0e0-4d55-aa2e-746a9fcd9079&k=63910 |archive-date=8 February 2009 }}</ref> In an editorial to the Abbotsford News, Rev. Christoph Reiners questions what effect the exhibits will have on the values of children attending for school field trips.<ref>[http://dignityinboston.googlepages.com/bodyworldsobjectifieshumanity dignity in Boston – Body worlds objectifies humanity] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304155233/http://dignityinboston.googlepages.com/bodyworldsobjectifieshumanity |date=4 March 2009 }}</ref> Others—such as the Catholic Schools Office of Phoenix—acknowledge the educational content of Body Worlds.<ref>{{cite web |last=Phelan |first=Mike |url=http://www.catholicsun.org/2007/feb15/local/bodyworlds.html |title=Phoenix Diocesan Newspaper |publisher=The Catholic Sun |date=15 February 2007 |access-date=25 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205020019/http://www.catholicsun.org/2007/feb15/local/bodyworlds.html |archive-date=5 February 2010 }}</ref> Reporting on the exhibition at the O2 bubble in 2008/2009, Melanie Reid of The Times stated "(Body Worlds) should be compulsory viewing for every child of 10 or over".<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/melanie_reid/article5002781.ece Melanie Reid, The Times: Not gory, not scary, just fascinating]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Retrieved 19 May 2010.</ref>