The nerve surgeon Susan Mackinnon discovered that an old but precise textbook she relied on was created by a Viennese anatomist who had dissected Hitler’s victims to produce his detailed illustrations. Should we still be using the illustrations, she asks
I first met the Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy1 in 1982, when I was 32, during my hand fellowship at the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore and later at the University of Toronto. The atlas became my dissection partner during the many long hours spent in the anatomy laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
For several years, I knew the Pernkopf atlas (named after its author, Eduard Pernkopf, chair of anatomy and president of the University of Vienna) only as a unique and valued piece of science and art. However, in the late 1980s, I came across essays by Gerald Weissman, an Austrian born US physician-scientist at New York University, and David Williams, a medical illustrator of Purdue University, Indiana, exposing the origin of my dissection partner,23 calling it the “atlas of the Shoah,” derived during the Holocaust.
Once I, a gentile, came to know the truth of its origin, my attitude changed. I secured the atlas in my operative room locker, with printed copies of Weissman’s and Williams’s essays slipped into the atlas as a marker to anyone who might use it and a warning to “enter with caution.”
However, having already spent many years with the atlas, still the most detailed anatomy book I’ve ever seen, I continued to feel the need to refer to it occasionally for the sake of improving my patients’ surgical outcomes. Several times a month, while operating, I would struggle with the anatomical nuances of nerve pathways. The atlas showed me the way—an exact and safe surgical approach to the …

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当医疗信息来自纳粹暴行时。

神经外科医师苏珊·麦金农（Susan Mackinnon）发现，她所依赖的一本古老而又精确的教科书是由维也纳解剖学家创作的，他解剖了希特勒的受害者，制作了详细的插图。如果我们仍要使用这些插图，她问
我在巴尔的摩的柯蒂斯国家手中心与后来在多伦多大学的手交手时，我是在1982年32岁的时候第一次见到《地形学和应用人体解剖学图集1》。在约翰·霍普金斯医院的解剖学实验室花费了许多长时间之后，地图集成为了我的解剖合作伙伴。
多年来，我只知道Pernkopf地图集（以其作者爱德华·珀恩科普夫（Eduard Pernkopf）的名字命名，他是解剖学的主席和维也纳大学的校长）仅是一门独特而有价值的科学和艺术作品。但是，在1980年代后期，我遇到了纽约大学的奥地利出生的美国医师科学家杰拉尔德·韦斯曼和印第安纳州普渡大学的医学插图画家大卫·威廉姆斯的论文，揭露了我解剖伴侣的起源，2 3大屠杀期间将其称为“ Shoah地图集”。
当我（一个外邦人）知道其起源的真相后，我的态度发生了变化。我将地图集固定在手术室的储物柜中，将魏斯曼和威廉姆斯的论文的印刷副本滑入地图集，以作为可能使用它的人的标记，并警告“谨慎输入”。
但是，已经在地图集上使用了很多年，但仍然是我见过的最详尽的解剖学书籍，为了提高患者的手术效果，我仍然感到偶尔需要参考它。一个月几次，在手术时，我会在神经通路的解剖细微差别上挣扎。地图集向我展示了这种方法-一种准确，安全的手术方法来治疗…