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Thu 01 Jan 2009Exhibition of dissected bodies not for the squeamish
THEY WERE abandoned in death, and are now subject to the kind of attention they never received in their lives. According to its promoters, 11 million people have seen
Bodies – the Exhibitionwhich opens on Saturday at the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin.
The bodies, which have been dissected and placed on display, are those of Chinese people who died without being claimed by any next-of-kin. It has been the practice for centuries to offer such bodies for medical research but, instead, they have been maintained using a process of polymer preservation and exhibited around the world.
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