PHILADELPHIA — A disembodied man has filed for an injunction to stop an exhibition of Body Works, a popular traveling science show showing posed human cadavers, claiming he is featured in one of the tableaus and that he did not give his permission.

Claurence Henderson of Philadelphia, who died in 2001 in a car accident, said he checked his Pennsylvania driver’s license to show that he was an organ donor, but he had not willed his body to science. He claims that his body is being used in an exhibit that shows the increasing use of joint replacements in human bodies.

“That’s me up there. I saw the serial number on my knee replacement and that’s my body and I want it removed from that display,” Henderson testified at a court hearing where he asked for an injunction. His lawyers have asked a court to either stop the exhibit or remove the body in question.

A Jill Sherman, a spokeswoman for Mannfried von Eschenbach, the creator of the exhibits, said, “All our cadavers come from China. It’s highly unlikely that someone from Philadelphia would end up in one of our displays.”

Sherman added, however, that the body used in the exhibit did not have an artificial joint originally. “You’re not generally going to find that among the population from which the bodies are obtained,” she said. The joint was added to the body for the purposes of the exhibit, she added.

The Franklin Institute Science Museum, where the exhibit is being displayed, had no comment.