Exhibit Title	BODYWORLDS	BODIES...the Exhibition
Official Website	BODYWORLDS	BODIES...the Exhibition
Creator / Promoter	Gunther von Hagens, who developed the Plastination technique in the 1970s.    Von Hagens' original collaborator / corpse supplier was Dr. Sui Hong Jin of Dalian, China.	Premier Exhibitions, Inc. of Atlanta, GA   Premier states that it obtained all of the corpses and organs in the exhibit through the Dalian Medical University plastination laboratories in the People's Republic of China.   The president of Dalian Medical University Plastination Co. LTD. is Dr. Sui Hong Jin.
First Opened:	Japan, 1995	Tampa, FL 2005
Has appeared in:	BODYWORLDS Tokyo & further cities, Japan Mannheim, Germany Vienna, Austria Bale, Switzerland Cologne, Germany Oberhausen, Germany Berlin, Germany Brussels, Belgium London, Great Britain Stuttgart, Germany Munich, Germany Hamburg, Germany Frankfurt, Germany Los Angeles, CA Chicago, IL Philadelphia, PA St. Paul, MN Dallas, TX Charlotte, NC Milwaukee, WI BODYWORLDS 2 Seoul, Korea Busan, Korea Singagpore, Singapore Taipei, Taiwan Kaohsiung, Taiwan Los Angeles, CA Cleveland, OH Toronto, Canada Denver, CO Boston, MA Chicago, IL Montreal, Canada San Jose, CA Baltimore, MD   BODYWORLDS 3 Houston, TX Vancouver, Canada Phoenix, AZ Portland, OR St. Louis, MO	Tampa, FL NYC, NY Atlanta, GA Las Vegas, NV Miami, FL Seattle, WA Durham, NC Washington D.C. Lisbon, Portugal Prague, Czech Republic San Diego, CA  Branson, MO Columbus, OH Buenos Aires, Argentina Pittsburgh, PA Framingham, MA Madrid, Spain Barcelona, Spain Ft. Lauderdale, FL Cincinnati, OH Hartford, CT
Where the bodies and organs come from, according to the exhibit promoter:	The BODYWORLDS exhibitions rely on the generosity of body donors; individuals who bequeathed that, upon their death, their bodies could be used for educational purposes in the exhibitions. Currently, the Institute for Plastination has a donor roster of 8000 individuals, 490 are already deceased.  (Source: Official Website)	All of the bodies were obtained through the Dalian Medical University Plastination Laboratories in the People's Republic of China.  (Source: Official Website)   Premier says that it has "[Chinese] government certificates that guarantee none of the bodies had been a murder victim, prisoner, mental patient or aborted fetus." Premier states that it is paying $25 million over five years to rent the bodies and organs it is exhibiting.
Did the people displayed in the show give their consent to be plastinated / exhibited?	All of the full-body plastinates and the majority of the specimens are from these body donors; some specific specimens that show unusual conditions come from old anatomical collections and morphological institutes.  (Source: Official Website)   Note: See The Corpse Supplier section of The Issues page for more on this topic.	"[Roy Glover - spokesperson for BODIES...the Exhibition] states that 'since the bodies were either unclaimed or unidentified, obtaining consent was impossible.'" - Detroit Metro Times http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=10069 Since BODIES...the Exhibition began touring, Premier Exhibitions, Inc. has consistently stated up-front that all of the bodies displayed in the exhibition were unclaimed and unidentified.  Premier is renting the cadavers and organs from China's Dalian Medical University, which acquired the unidentified, unclaimed corpses from police.  This being the case, Premier has also consistently admitted that since all of the people were unidentified and already dead upon arrival at Dalian, none of the bodies or organs in BODIES...the Exhibition was donated.  All were used without the consent of the individuals or their families.