I don't know what it is but I love medical models. You know, the stuff your doctor shows you in the desperate attempt to you make you lead a healthy lifestyle. For example, the plastic diseased heart or the skeletal model of the knee to demonstrate arthritis. We get a lot of catalogs in my work place (hospital) that I enjoy flipping through.
Perhaps no one will respond to this because it is an odd interest. But I wanted to see if someone else shared it.
Of course they are cool! What do people gravitate to at science museums? The hands-on models of human organs and systems.
(Decided my original post was tmi and largely irrelevant)
I don't think it's that odd. It's got a pretty strong fascination quotient.
I used to have an lab and office right outside the Vet Anatomy museum, full of picked animals of every stripe. I hated having to cut through there when i was working at night.
But I love all that kind of stuff. So you are not alone.
-Ed
When I was a kid there was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6G986lpag
The magazine came with collectable body parts so you could get a kid friendly human body kit with all the parts.
Loved it, I found it facinating.