Sunday, January 20, 2008

Atkinson Extra Credit

In Tiffany Atkinson's chapter, she writes much about the 'naturalness' of the human body. However, I was unclear about what 'naturalness' means in her argument, as well as in a more general view of the human body. Is the 'natural' body merely a physical lack of anomalies? ' Body Worlds' exhibited plasticized bodies stripped of their skin; and with it, much of their identity as a former living being. Was Atkinson posing these bodies as being more natural? Can an argument or identity as an individual be 'natural' as well, or does the naturalness of the human body only exist in physical anatomy?

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