Public Lectures

Lectures
June 28 Anatomy: Why We Dissect [lectures from Ken Roberts, John Eyler and Dave Lee tentatively to be re-recorded in studio]

July 6 Boundaries and Bodies: Cultural and Religious Perspectives
-Kirk Allison
-Linda Schulte-Sasse includes full text of Dr. Schulte-Sasse's May 12 Star Tribune editorial
-Lucia M. Tanassi
-Terry Nichols
-Margaret P. Moss
-discussion, moderated by Mary Faith Marshall

July 12 Anatomy as Art, Art as Anatomy
-John Eyler
-Lyndel King and Michael Stoughton
-discussion, moderated by Lyndel King

July 19 Stiff Morality: The Ethics of Using Bodies
-Jeffrey Kahn (intro)
-Maryam Valapour
-Mary Faith Marshall
-Carl Elliott
-discussion, moderated by Jeffrey Kahn

Related Links
Body Worlds Web site
Google news search: Gunther von Hagens (news feed)
University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
University of Minnesota Center for Medical Humanities
University of Minnesota Program for Human Rights in Medicine
University of Minnesota Program in the History of Medicine
University of Minnesota Weisman Art Museum

The Body on Display: Controversies and Conversations was a summer 2006 lecture series sponsored by the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center.