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The exhibit features 150 real human specimens — including 20 whole-body plastinates — to explore the human condition. By Laura Swartz · 2/27/2025, 4:08 p.m.

It wasn’t that I thought medical imaging was simple, precisely. I understood that a real human body is complicated — that the anatomy textbooks were the map, not the territory.