More than 8 million people around the world have seen the exhibits in Gunther Von Hagens' exhibition of flayed and dissected corpses, but the professor has been accused of desecrating bodies by religious leaders, as well as medical and art experts.
Von Hagens' pioneered 'plastination' of bodies 25 years ago - a process that can preserve cadavers for thousands of years. His multi-million institute, based in China, has 200 skilled staff dissecting full-time, with 40 people a week donating their bodies.
Some have criticised the anatomist of a 'Disney style' approach to his work - posing the bodies as chess players and horse-riders - and there have been questions asked about the sources of some of the exhibits. But he is just the latest in a long line of brilliant scientists to have brought turned anatomy into a spectacle.
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