Title: Ethically untenable.
Review: Pernkopf's anatomy textbook has been praised for its quality. I wouldn't know - I've never looked at it. And I never will, because Pernkopf participated in unethical experiments on living human beings while gathering information for this atlas. His unwilling subjects, mostly Jews incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps, underwent experimental surgeries and dissections, some having spinal or peripheral nerves severed. They were then awakened and made to report on the effect of the lesions. As a physician, scientist, and human being, I find these experiments and Pernkopf's work entirely unacceptable on ethical grounds. I will not be a participant, not even to the extent of reviewing the results, some of which appear in this volume. If you have an interest in human anatomy, do yourself a favor - buy Frank Netter's atlas. It's the finest available, and was based on cadaveric dissections; his models willed their bodies to science.
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