The stain of Nazi science pushed one anatomy book off the shelves. A UBC professor has now found another

Claudia Krebs filled out the online form and arrived at the University of British Columbia library, masked, to pick up her order. She hauled the old anatomy atlases home in plastic bags. It was 2021, the university was still in COVID lockdown, and she was preparing to teach a class on ethics in biomedical visualization. Pernkopf was the natural place to start.Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographic and Applied Human Anatomy was once the gold standard in illustrated anatomy texts. Originally published in 1937, it was the first book of its kind to use full-colour offset printing. The quality of the paintings was without equal, and the cross-sectioned depictions of the body were displayed in helpfully layered dissection steps.