The Pernkopf Symposium

From Pernkopf (vol.2; 1980) after Batke (1940; fig. 237) & Lepier (n.d.; figs.225, 261) by L.Lax (1982)

From Pernkopf (vol.2; 1980) after Batke (1940; fig. 237) & Lepier (n.d.; figs.225, 261) by L.Lax (1982)

On November 10, 2019 a symposium titled, The Vienna Protocol: Medicine’s Confrontation with Continuing Legacies of its Nazi Past (a.k.a. The Pernkopf Symposium), focusing on the legacy of Pernkopf’s Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy, took place at the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, sponsored by the Master of Science program in Biomedical Communications, in conjunction with the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, and coordinated by Prof. Leila Lax. 

 

Read a summary of the symposium recently published in the Annals of Anatomy

  • Hildebrandt, Sabine “The Vienna Protocol: Medicine’s confrontation with continuing legacies of its Nazi past", 10. November 2019, Annals of Anatomy (2020).

The Pernkopf Symposium presentations by international and local scholars were videoed and can be viewed here: https://www.leilalax.ca/research/pernkopf-symposium


For any inquiries, contact Leila Lax: l.lax@utoronto.ca