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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
HAGENS, Gunther von (1945 – )

HAGENS, Gunther von (1945 – )

1945 –

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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2005 CE

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Body worlds. The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies.

HAGENS, Gunther von (1945 – )
HAGENS, Gunther von (1945 – ) WHALLEY, Angelina (1960 – )

In 1977 Gunther von Hagens invented plastination, a technique or process used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. In the process water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be …