Graphic exhibit will show healthy and diseased organs to educate visitors
Visitors will get up close and personal with the workings of the body's internal organs and see what happens when disease strikes at an exhibit opening on Friday.
The Body Parts Exhibition, co-organised by Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University on the mainland, shows 179 specimens in graphic detail. Most of the parts have been preserved using the 'plastination' process and are similar to a controversial cadaver exhibit in Beijing recently.
The exhibits, with a health-education theme, show body parts in both healthy and unhealthy states, such as a kidney that has shrunk to a third of its normal size due to a problem with the immune system.
Chinese University anatomy professor David Yew Tai-wai said the exhibition would help visitors learn more about their body structure and health.
'We hope the public and secondary students can know more about the change in body parts and the importance of each part's function,' Dr Yew said.
