Where do they get the bodies for the Bodies Exhibition?

Question

more info here.. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4291334&page=1

Answer 1

I've been to there!

I read the article that's where they get them from,

China.

Answer 2

I saw the "20/20" episode about this on Friday.  There was a strong suggestion that not all of the bodies are from volunteers, but where the rest come from is not entirely clear.  If you can get more information on that episode, it may answer your question.

Answer 3

this story has been circulating since the exhibition began.  I'm not entirely sure who is and isn't telling the truth here.

Answer 4

I saw one of these exhibits in person, and after a while it did get kind of suspicious that practically all of the displays were male, and Asian. At most I saw only 2 females, and they were likely only used because a part of the exhibit had to do with pregnancy, and one of them was a cross sectioned woman with baby in womb.

I immediately had, and still have the suspicion that they were Chinese prisoners, or other sorts of enemies of the state. China doesn't have a stellar medical ethics policy going on so it would be a natural assumption to make.

Answer 5

One of the people I saw had a number tattooed on his arm like maybe it was a prisoner's number ...weird

It's a fascinating exhibition but something about them all being Chinese made me wonder why it's so easy to get bodies from China and not from other countries ...then I started wondering just how much permission was required from the families of the deceased

Obviously it's really important for students to have this kind of access to human anatomy but it seems like such a mercenary venture ...I'm just not sure how I feel about this

Answer 6

People donate their bodies.  Since it's become so popular, there is now a waiting list.