PLASTINATION: REVOLUTIONIZING ANATOMY AND PRESERVATION TECHNIQUE

Abstract

Preservation refers to the act of guarding, maintaining and securing commodity to help it from deterioration, damage, or destruction. Preservation emphasizes maintaining the original state or functionality of commodity as much as possible. Plastination is one of a fashion or process used in deconstruction to save bodies or body corridor, first developed by Gunther von Hagens in 1977. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding  samples that can be touched, don't smell or decay, and indeed retain utmost parcels of the original sample. This composition explores the history, methodology, operations, and ethical considerations of plastination.