1. Articulate the difference between objective and subjective approaches to the physical body.

3. Identify ways in which patients and health professional can help the patient reclaim the body's wholeness.

Section 1 > Exercise 1 > Plastination images

This is a continuation of the experience of laying bare the inner working of the body. Think about what it means to use real bodies in this process and relate them to the experience of physical antomical dissection. Then proceed to the next page.

B. Plastination is an embalming process through which bodily fluids are replaced by acetone, which in turn is replaced by reactive plastics while still in the body. Liquid plastic is infused into every cell using a method called forced vacuum impregnation. The result is a specimen preserved as plastic.

Courtesy Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany (www.bodyworlds.com) Exhibits: Toronto September 30, 2005-February 26, 2006 Philadelphia October 7, 2005-April 23, 2006