How the Grinch Taught Dissection
I hated pep-rallies in high school and I have always struggled with having a sense of team spirit. In fact, at Christmas time I find that I tend to have more in common with the Grinch than Old Saint Nick,…
Category Cadaver Use Committee
Bodies for Science and Education: The Startling History
Many of us in HAPS have been fortunate to have learned human anatomy either by dissecting human specimens or by working with already dissected bodies. Many of us now teach students using human cadavers as the primary specimens for study…
A Female Body of Knowledge: Cadavers and Caricatures
During research for past HAPS workshops, I was struck by a shift in attitudes toward and uses for dissection in Europe. It was not always a practice banned by the church and practiced in secret as is often thought. There…
Eduard Pernkopf
Who is Eduard Pernkopf and why should we care? Eduard Pernkopf was a Nazi. That is the short of it. He also created an anatomical atlas that has become a notorious source of ethical debate since at least the 1990s.…