While some of the bodies where aranged in a way that seemed more for artistic value than educational, I’d say that I felt the set-up was 80% educational, 20% “art”.
I honestly feel that I can be a better medic by being at the exhibit. I always that the impression that the arteries, even the aorta, were much larger. I would look at a portion and say “If a bullet hit you this way, what would be damaged” and could think about how I would treat somebody. Even the area with the baby fetus’s, you can see what appears to be a tiny face on something so small, and I think that even in a liberal place like Seattle, some people walked away just a little more pro-life.
I think it’s one thing for a person who has a legitimate interest in or need to know more about the subject to see a human body dissected, but it’s quite another to put human bodies on display as a show.
“Even the area with the baby fetus’s, you can see what appears to be a tiny face on something so small, and I think that even in a liberal place like Seattle, some people walked away just a little more pro-life.”
Funny story: when we saw our Bodyworks exhibit, my wife was like 8 months pregnant. We went through the maternity section and I could hear soooo many whispers from people who were amazed that my wife was in that section. I had a really good feeling that some people were looking at the dissections and then at the ruddy, happy pregnant complexion of my wife and realizing “it IS a life!”