On Saturday I went to see the Bodies Exhibition in Dublin. In short, it’s an art-meets-science exhibition of plasticised human bodies, enabling the viewer to take a closer look at the intricacy of the body; the skeletal and muscular systems, circulatory system, digestive system, lymphatic system, nervous system, they’re all there. Including a number of foetuses at various stages.
I caught this article on Primetime tonight (something I would have never intended, had my housemate not alerted me to it while I was reading on the sofa). It turns out that the exhibition has incurred a moral lampooning all over the world (in Pittsburg, for example).
Am I callous for shrugging at all this? Nobody claimed the bodies, they’re being used for medical purposes, what’s the problem? It’s not my plasticised auntie, and nobody will ever discover the identity of the subjects, so it will never be your auntie, or indeed “Kitty from Coleraine”.
