China's Ghastly New Industry

I watched the New York Times video "China's Ghastly New Industry." This video is about BodyWorlds, a business that perserves skinless human cadavors for a museum dedicated to learning anatomy. The creator of this business, Dr. Gunther Van Hagan, also called Dr. Death and Dr. Frankenstein, says that this if for the furtherance of knowledge of human anatomy. He perserves bodies through a process which he calls "plastination." A team saws and slices bodies in their proper positions, removes body fluids and replaces them with plastic, and then around 50 or so medical school students place the bodies in real life postions, such as playing a guitar, in the "positioning room" of the busines. On the video I saw human bodies laying in hug tubs of formaldehyde. The business is located in an underground bunker and also uses animals in its exhibits. The creator says that he wants "to be the Mercedes of anatomy." He says that this makes learning anatomy fun. A lot of copy cat businesses have been accused of using unclaimed Chinese bodies. However the creator of Body Worlds says that the bodies that they use are from donors. The creator, origionally from Europe, says that he chose to come to China for this business because it is "the worlds factory floor."