THE timing could not have been worse. The week after the London opening of Bodies…The Exhibition, a display of human cadavers, body parts and fetuses from China, the British Transplantation Society attacked the unethical procurement of organs from prisoners executed in the People’s Republic. The timing was a coincidence, but it has put the spotlight on the organisers of Bodies.
The exhibition has already caused controversy in Atlanta (Georgia), Tampa (Florida) and New York City, where similar shows have been running. As with Gunther von Hagens’s Bodyworlds exhibition, they have been criticised as gratuitous, tasteless, even unethical. The…
