During February, at Bodies … The Exhibition, you can learn about a lot more than the body itself. To commemorate Black History Month, the attraction has installed displays that highlight some of the Black men and women who have contributed to the fields of medicine and healthcare. Those include such people as neurosurgeon Dr. Alexa Canady, and Dr. William Edward Allen Jr., the first African American certified X-ray technician, among many others.
Bodies is a little like a cross between a natural history museum and a biology class, where real human bodies have been preserved through the method of plastination, replacing body fat and water with plastics, allowing specimens to be moved and posed. They retain many of the properties a live body would, which is why checking out the exhibits is so fascinating. You can actually see what a muscle looks like inside. You can see what a healthy lung looks like next to the lung of a smoker. (Spoiler: it’s not nice.) You might even see what’s really in the heads of some people.
So enlighten yourself a little, and learn something about Black history and the human body.
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