Nazi origins of Eduard Pernkopf's 'Topographische Anatomie des Menschen': the biomedical ethical issues
TítuloThe Nazi origins of Eduard Pernkopf's 'Topographische Anatomie des Menschen': the biomedical ethical issues
Autor
Call number940.5318/0487
Número del objeto09529l
Lugar de publicaciónNew York, New York, United States
EditorialThe Haworth Press
Año de publicación
1998
Paginaciónpp 131-146
MaterialArticle
ISBN0789003791
NotesArticle from the book 'The Holocaust-memories, research, reference' edited by Robert Hauptman & Susan Motin Hubbs,"simultaneously co-published as The reference librarian, numbers 61 and 62, 1998"; pp 131-146
Descripción
The focus of this article is on how the origins of the Pernkopf anatomy atlas became known over 50 years after its creation. The ethical dilemmas that doctors and medical centres face as a result of this and other potentially tainted data is reviewed.