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Tastelessly
Controversial
An
art exhibit involving the plastification of
corpses
L.A.
Grim Society
Skeletons in
the Closet Skeletons in the Closet
features a complete line of quality souvenir
items, such as beach towels, tee-shirts, tote
bags, baseball caps, coroner toe tag key chains,
boxer shorts called "undertakers," and more. Each
item displays a unique Los Angeles County Coroner
design such as a skeleton in Sherlock Holmes
attire, a chalked-out body outline or the L.A.
County Coroner seal.
The
Mutter's Museum
" According
to a
Roadside
America article,
The
Mόtter Museum at the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia promises and delivers
an afternoon of esoteric and incredible sights.
The sophisticated, high-ceilinged gallery that
houses this collection of medical monstrosities
helps us rationalize our interest in it. Designed
for perusal by present and future members of a
dignified overpaid profession, the museum is two
floors of dark wood-trimmed display cases and a
library-like stateliness. Shouts of "Will ya
look at this MONSTER BABY?" are entirely
inappropriate." Here are just a
few highlights:
- Soap Woman:
the body of a woman who died of Yellow Fever
sometime in the 19th century and was buried in
soil with certain chemical properties that
turned her into soap!
- a plaster cast
of Chang and Eng AND their actual attached
livers
- Chevalier
Jackson Collection of objects swallowed and
removed
- Brains of
murderers and epileptics
- The Secret
Tumor of Grover Cleveland
- The Thorax of
John Wilkes Booth
- A giant colon
- Large
collection of baby deformities.
- Skeletons of a
giant and a midget
- "Brain Of
A Murderer" - John Wilson hanged in
Norristown, PA
- Longitudinal
slices of the head, showing brain, etc.
- Skull
Collections, including the Muniz collection of
trephinated (holes cut in them)"
The
official Mutter Museum Site See also
How
I spent my Christmas aka Look at the Giant Colon
Associations
Forensic
Nursing is the application of nursing
science to public or legal proceedings; the
application of the forensic aspects of health care
combined with the bio-psycho-social education of
the registered nurse in the scientific
investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death
of victims and perpetrators of abuse, violence,
criminal activity and traumatic accidents.
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