Anatomical subjects depicted in eduard pernkopfs richly illustrated topographische anatomie des menschen may be victims of the nazi. Nerve surgeons assessment of the role of eduard pernkopfs atlas of topographic and applied human anatomy in surgical practice, neurosurgery, volume 83, issue 4, october 2018, page e189. Integrating eduard pernkopfs atlas into a librarianled medical humanities seminar. Pernkopf s atlas has been called a troubled masterpiece. Publication date 1980 topics human anatomy, topographical anatomy collection opensource language. One month after nazi germany invaded austria inpernkopf was made dean of the medical faculty in vienna. The following are supplementary data to this article.
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