{"id":33,"date":"2006-07-26T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T06:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-07-26T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T06:04:18","slug":"what-a-piece-of-work-is-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"What a piece  of work is a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, we have a  Czech medical student staying with us for six weeks. He is 24 and has done five years of a six-year medicine degree at the University of Prague. He is spending six weeks with us while he works at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London. It&#8217;s great to have him with us because he and his famliy have been really close friends for almost two decades.<br \/>\nWe went together to Earls Court in central London to see a remarkable exhibition called simply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodiestheexhibition.com\/bodies.html\">&#8220;Bodies&#8221;<\/a>. This is the creation of an American institution, although all the human bodies look oriental.<br \/>\nOnce dissected, the specimen is immersed in acetone, which eliminates all body water. The specimen is then placed in a large bath of silicone, or polymer, and sealed in a vacuum chamber. Under vacuum, acetone leaves the body in the form of gas and the polymer replaces it, entering each cell and body tissue. A catalyst is then applied to the specimen, hardening it and completing the process.<br \/>\nThe exhibition is enormously educational, showing all the parts and functions of the human body and demonstrating its immense complexity. There is a display of the blackened lungs of a heavy smoker that should put tobacco users off. Not an exhibition for the squeamish though.<br \/>\nA few years ago, I saw a very similar exhibition in London called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodyworlds.com\/index.html\">&#8220;Body Worlds&#8221;<\/a> put on by Gunther von Hagens. His bodies looked oriental too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, we have a Czech medical student staying with us for six weeks. He is 24 and has done five years of a six-year medicine degree at the University of Prague. He is spending six weeks with us while he works at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in central London. It&#8217;s great to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}