Letter in response to Winkelmann and Schagen and Hildebrandt regarding: Hermann Stieve's clinical anatomical research and the history of anatomy in the Third Reich

Seidelman, William E.

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“…The combination of the controversy over the legacy of Hermann Stieve the anatomist and the publication of the Hildebrandt overview of anatomy in the Third Reich provoked an effort by the anatomists of Germany to examine their discipline's own problematic history (Seidelman, 2010;Pringle, 2010). This undertaking was led by Prof. Christoph Redies of the University of Jena and strongly supported by the Board of the Anatomische Gesellschaft (Profs.…”

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Dissecting the History of Anatomy in the Third Reich

Seidelman¹

2021

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This paper is a personal narrative of involvement with the revelations of the use of anatomical and pathological specimens of victims of Nazi terror. The narrative documents responses to the question of the retention and use of anatomical and pathological specimens from victims of Nazi terror by leading academic and scientific institutions and organizations in Germany and Austria including the government of the Federal Republic of (West) Germany, the University of Tübingen, the University of Vienna, the Max Planck Society and the Anatomische Gesellschaft. It begins with the public revelations of 1989 and concludes with the September 2010 Symposium on the History of Anatomy during the Third Reich at the University of Würzburg. The narrative documents a 22-year transition in attitude and responses to the investigation and documentation of the history of anatomy and pathology during the Third Reich. The chronicle includes the 1989 proposed “Call for an International Commemoration” by the author, together with the bioethicist Professor Arthur Caplan, on the occasion of the planned burial of the misbegotten specimens and the responses to that proposal. Originally published in Annals of Anatomy Vol. 194, No. 3, 2012© 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. Image credit: Table of Contents image provided by the Medical University of Vienna, MUW-AD-003250-5-ABB-90

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Section: Clinical Anatomy and A New Generation Of Scholarsmentioning

confidence: 99%