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An exposition brings in the Oca real human bodies “plasticized”. A week after the end of the Carnival in
Brazil (end of February), an exposition has been inaugurated in the Oca in
Ibirapuera’s Park who shows real corpse. Controversy, “Human Body: Real and fascinating”, opened to the public on March the 1rst.  Here in
Brazil, the public is able to see 16 corpses of women and men and 225 organs. In
New York it was 22 bodies, including fetus and 260 organs. The creator is Roy Glover, is a professor of anatomy and cellular biology from

Michigan
University.
           The tissues of the cadavers passed thought a long process who gives them an aspect of plastic texture.
Many protest happened when the exhibition began in 2001 in
Berlin. Actually the purpose of bodies in an exposition wasn’t the only pattern of this controversy. Many discussions have taken place about the origin of these bodies provided by the Dalian School University of Medicine (north of
China). Some sources who haven’t been comproved said that these bodies belong to execute criminals. But the organizers assure that they belong to people who had a natural death and as alive they agreed to participate of a donation program of benefit science and education in
China.
 I think this exposition is interesting… Even if a lot of people considered it abusive or totally insane, the fact of being in contact, touching, seeing bodies like yours is a unique chance. Because I don’t agree with the fact that people live in their body but in the same time they have and enormous distance of them.
People really should visit this exhibition.

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