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- Understanding the dark history and ethical issues surrounding Pernkopf's atlas is crucial for its responsible usage, especially considering its ties to the Holocaust.
- The paper suggests implementing The Vienna Protocol, which includes adding an informational letter to the atlas, conducting a research study on its historical context, and creating a museum exhibition of its illustrations.
- By promoting informed use of the atlas, we can foster ethical discussions, encourage personal reflection, and honor the legacy of Holocaust victims represented in the work.
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Knowledge of the dark history and inherent ethical dilemmas of Pernkopf's atlas is essential to individual decisions on use. Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, the legacy of Pernkopf's Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy continues to unfold. Informed use of the atlas needs to be integrated in academia and in practice. This paper advocates for the adoption of The Vienna Protocol and improving informed use of the atlas by: (1) updating and inserting an information letter in as many volumes as possible, so that the history can be known before use; (2) conducting and publishing a research study within the medical art community, to examine knowledge of the history of the atlas and elevate awareness; and (3) creating a museum archive and permanent exhibition of the original anatomical illustrations, to document historical facts, disseminate visual evidence, and illuminate embedded controversies. Moving towards informed use, in these ways, provides opportunities for continued ethical discourse, personal reflection and future Holocaust education. Through informed use we memorialize and pay tribute to the Nazi victims portrayed in the atlas.
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