(Reprinted with permission from Annals of Anatomy Vol. 194, No. 3, 2012).
(Reprinted with permission from Annals of Anatomy Vol. 194, No. 3, 2012).
Despite the revelations of the Nuremberg Medical Trial and subsequent prosecutions, the reality is that, with particular respect to medicine and the role of leading academic and scientific institutions during the so-called "Third Reich," the postwar period war was marked by a "Great Silence." With few exceptions, this silence continued until the 1980's, when increasing systematic scholarly research and inadvertent discoveries revealed the significant role played by the German and Austrian medical profession during the Nazi period and the Shoah. The discoveries included body parts of victims of Nazi terror in the collections of university institutes of anatomy and scientific research. The Pernkopf Atlas of Human Anatomy represents a legacy from Nazi medicine. Although it includes images from Nazi victims, its accuracy makes it a valued resource in surgery. The Vienna Protocol is a new halachic responsum on the question of what to do with newly discovered remains from Nazi victims and their data, and can provide guidance in the ethical reasoning on whether to use the Pernkopf atlas.
After decades of denial, German academic medicine was reluctant to accept responsibility for its complex collaboration with the Nazi regime. Consequently, much of this history needs further detailed exploration, as legacies from this history still exist in the form of "Books, Bones and Bodies." Specifically, this concerns the legacies of anatomists' use of bodies of Nazi victims in teaching and research, as "data" have become anatomical knowledge and specimens from victims continue to be discovered.
(Reprinted with permission from Lancet (2000) 355: 1445-57).
AMI 2020 Salon.
BioImages is the BioCommunications Association's annual visual media competition intended to showcase the finest still photography, graphics, and motion media work in the life sciences and medicine.
The Louis Schmidt Committee is pleased to announce that Danielle Edwards, BA, BAppSc (Hons), FBCA, RBI, FAIMBI, FIPT was selected as the 2020 Louis Schmidt Laureate. The Louis Schmidt Award, named for a founder and second President of the Association, is the highest honor presented by the BCA, and it is bestowed "for outstanding contributions to the progress of biocommunications." Danielle's extensive personal and professional accomplishments, both behind the lens, and in support of a plethora of professional organizations, illustrates her commitment to the unique quality and diversity of her work, as well as the active mentoring and sharing of a career's worth of highly specialized information.
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