Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Plastination in Historical Perspective -- 1 Being Non-biodegradable: The Lonely Fate of Metameat -- 2 Lifelike Humans: Playing Poker with James Bond and Ted Williams -- 3 More Wondrous and More Worthy to Behold: The Future of Public Anatomy -- 4 Resisting the Allure of the Lifelike Dead -- 5 Detachment Has Consequences: A Note of Caution from Medical Students' Experiences of Cadaver Dissection -- 6 The History and Potential of Public Anatomy -- 7 What Would Dr. William Hunter Think about Bodies Revealed? -- 8 Vive la differénce: Gunther von Hagens and His Maligned Copycats -- 9 Normative Objections to Posing Plastinated Bodies: An Ethics of Bodily Repose -- 10 For Ronnie and Donnie -- 11 The Creeping Illusionizing of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics -- 12 Craft and Narrative in Body Worlds: An Aesthetic Consideration -- Afterword: Plastination's Share of Mind -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.