ABSTRACT
There is a recent trend in the history of medicine that considers shedding more light on the great human tragedies of WWII, particularly those related to the Nazi party. Research has also been conducted to identify the victims, especially those whose bodies were used for anatomical/pathological purposes (Hildebrandt, 2014, with a very detailed bibliography), including teaching materials: Eduard Pernkopf’s (1888–1955) atlas of anatomy has probably been the most debated example (Israel & Seidelman, 1996; Hubbard, 2001). This trend is also expressed in another way, consisting of in-depth analyses of the biographies of some physicians in the era in exquisite detail, in order to decide whether his or her name deserves — on the basis of his or her behavior and not of his or her contributions to science — to be kept or to be eliminated from medical terminology (Strous & Edelman, 2007). These so-called “tainted” eponyms (Woywodt, Lefrak, & Matteson, 2010) are the topic of this article.
