The Virtual Corpse
Documentary
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|US
|en
|45 min
Release Date: 2003-01-26
Overview - Documentary about the first human to donate his body to science so that it could be studied in the form of a 3D database of the entire anatomy that is available to view online. Convicted killer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science shortly before he was executed in 1993 and this documentary examines what took place after his death by lethal injection.
Production Companies
Swiss Federal Office of CultureHBOSchweizer Fernsehen (FS)eXtra FilmHBO Documentary FilmsSWR
