Atlas M C
Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
Med Law. 2000;19(3):463-73.
The American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights states that "Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation." Medical ethicists question the use of data derived from experimentation that may have involved inhuman and degrading treatment of subjects or disrespect of a human corpse. Thus conflict between the upholding of ethical standards of research and freedom of information occurs. This conflict was brought to attention of the medical and library communities when journal articles purported that the source of the subjects for the illustrations in the classic anatomy atlas, Eduard Pernkopf's Topographische Anatomie des Menschen, were victims of the Nazi holocaust. While there has never been any dispute about the accuracy or educational value of the work, efforts were made to remove the book from medical libraries. Were these efforts a violation of the Library Bill of Rights or is it the responsibility of the library to discard those items that do not meet current standards of medical ethics? Librarians made different choices about what to do with the controversial Pernkopf title.
美国图书馆协会的《图书馆权利法案》指出：“资料不应因其创作者的出身、背景或观点而被排除在外。”医学伦理学家质疑使用可能涉及对受试者进行不人道和有辱人格的治疗或对人类尸体不尊重的实验所得数据。因此，在维护研究伦理标准和信息自由之间出现了冲突。当期刊文章声称经典解剖学图谱《爱德华·佩恩科夫人体局部解剖学》插图中的受试者来源是纳粹大屠杀的受害者时，这一冲突引起了医学和图书馆界的关注。虽然这部作品的准确性或教育价值从未有过争议，但仍有人努力将这本书从医学图书馆中移除。这些努力是违反了《图书馆权利法案》，还是图书馆有责任丢弃那些不符合当前医学伦理标准的物品呢？图书馆员对于如何处理这本有争议的佩恩科夫著作做出了不同的选择。
