Gunther von Hagens
Gunther von Hagens
Corpse row 'professor' has fines cut
A GERMAN anatomist whose exhibits of preserved corpses sparked international controversy received reduced fines from a German administrative court yesterday for illegally using the title "professor".
Von Hagens fights to keep medical title
A GERMAN anatomist whose exhibition of corpses has drawn controversy went to court yesterday to appeal against a ruling that he uses the title of professor illegally.
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Anger at body factory plan
CELEBRITY pathologist Gunther von Hagens has sparked a storm of protest in Poland after buying an abandoned factory.
Exhibits in body show may have been executed
A GERMAN anatomist whose exhibits of preserved, partially dissected corpses have drawn crowds and controversy in Europe and Asia has said he will return seven Chinese bodies for burial because he can’t prove they were not executed.
Body Blow
POLICE are expected to halt a macabre show involving the skinless body of a child if they receive complaints from the public.
Professor's city hunt for corpses
A CONTROVERSIAL German professor who has shocked the world with his exhibitions of skinless, preserved human corpses was expected to launch a macabre search for future specimens today.
Council decision 'will not stop exhibition of skinless corpses'
THE organisers of an exhibition involving the skinless body of a child have insisted it will go ahead today, despite being refused a venue by Edinburgh City Council.
Outrage at plans to display corpses
A GERMAN professor’s plans to display the skinless bodies of a dead infant and three adults in Edinburgh’s city centre has prompted outrage.
Over our dead body
A CONTROVERSIAL professor planning to bring an exhibition of skinned corpses to the Capital during the Fringe festival has been refused a licence to set up his gruesome show in Princes Street Gardens.
Professor plans show of corpses in the street
AN exhibition of skinless corpses on an Edinburgh street is being planned by the professor who conducted Britain’s first public autopsy.
Autopsy professor linked to illegal body exports
AN OFFICIAL in western Siberia has been put on trial accused of plotting to export 56 dead bodies to the controversial German artist Gunther von Hagens.
Television autopsy cleared
A BROADCAST of the UK’s first public autopsy for 170 years has been cleared by regulators.
Body backlash
THE mayor of Munich said yesterday city leaders plan to prevent a German doctor bringing his exhibition of preserved corpses to the city.
Get the patient off the critical list
LAST week’s public autopsy in London was just another leg of Professor Gunther von Hagens’s world tour, a butchering Barnum who revels in the smell of the embalming fluid and the roar of the horrified crowd. Watching him cut open the torso of a cadaver and place its organs in the out tray was stomach churning, rather like listening to the musings of an education consultant on a sleepy in-service day.
The strange case of Professor Von Hagens
LET’S face it: in Scotland, the land of the body-snatchers, there isn’t anything very shocking about a public autopsy, is there?
Police study the body of evidence on post-mortem
THE maverick German anatomist who performed the first public autopsy in Britain for 170 years will discover within days whether he is going to be prosecuted, police said yesterday.
Autopsy creates cutting edge art
AFTER a wait of almost 170 years, it was perhaps unsurprising that Professor Gunther von Hagens delayed proceedings for a few more minutes before reaching for his scalpel.
Bodies of opinion
THE controversial German doctor, Gunther von Hagens, claims he is prepared to go to jail for the right to stage a public autopsy in Britain - there has not been one for 170 years.
TV autopsy doctor defies police threat
THE first public autopsy in Britain for 170 years will go ahead today, despite the threat of police action, the maverick doctor behind the project has vowed.
Protest over corpse exhibit
THE creator of an art exhibit of preserved human corpses has called for supporters to face critics of the show today.
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