Uni spends £400,000 on creepy body parts
A university has spent £400,000 buying 200 plastinated body parts from Gunther von Hagens’ laboratory in Germany.
Warwick University splashed the cash on the specimens, which have been used in the German scientists creepy Body Worlds exhibitions, to help medical students.
The long-lasting body parts are created by removing body fat and water from bodies donated to the Institute for Plastination and impregnating a plastic polymer to preserve the body or body part.
They will now be used teach anatomy to medical students ... and help the science department hold the best Halloween parties the university has ever seen.
Warwick Medical School’s Chair of Clinical Anatomy Professor Peter Abrahams said the specimens were essential for anatomy teaching, "Our students can use these specimens again and again to understand how the body works," he said.
"Gunther von Hagens' plastination technique is the most effective and his specimens are of the highest quality."
The funding has come from the Strategic Health Authority as part of a £1.1 million grant for the School to create a centre for excellence in anatomy and surgical skills.
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