Hans Elias (1907 to 1985) was an anatomist, an educator, a mathematician, a cinematographer, a painter, and a sculptor. Above all, he was a German of Jewish descent, who had to leave his home country because of the policies of the National Socialist (NS) regime. He spent his life in exile, first in Italy and then in the United States. His biography is exemplary for a generation of younger expat...

The anatomist plays a critical role in the initiation of a balanced attitude to death and dying in the training of medical students (Druce and Johnson, 1994; Nnodim, 1996; Marks et al., 1997). In the course of medical education, anatomists are the earliest to be confronted with problems such as death anxiety of students (Dickinson et al., 1997). Despite the increased use of electronic media, ca...

Body Worlds, the international plastination phenomenon, has proved immensely popular with audiences worldwide. Never before has the human body been exposed to public gaze in such an accessible and intriguing manner. Dissected body parts feature alongside whole-body plastinates with their life-like poses ranging from those with Renaissance motifs to others with highly contemporary themes. Howeve...

BACKGROUND Two consensus documents have appeared which revised the anatomical nomenclature of the venous system of the lower extremity. They changed and substantially extended the last valid version of the Latin anatomical nomenclature, Terminologia Anatomica, published by the Federative Committee on Anatomical Terminology, with approval of the International Federation of Associations of Anatom...

The second half of the XVII century was the golden age of mechanistic anatomy: an increasing number of anatomists sought to explain the operations of the body in terms of machines of varying nature and complexity. These machines responded to shifting criteria of intelligibility at the time: whereas Aristotelian or Galenic faculties of the soul or of nature were deemed not only acceptable but ne...

In veterinary medicine, impressive technological advances in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology have led to a reduction the amount of time spent teaching anatomy shift toward anatomical research. As classically trained anatomists began retire at beginning 2000s, it became evident that there would be shortage qualified anatomists. This coincides with increase hiring recent graduates ge...

There is increasingly a call for clinical relevance in the teaching of biomedical sciences within all health care courses. However, this presupposes that there is a clear understanding of what can be considered core material within the curricula. To date, the anatomical sciences have been relatively poorly served by the development of core syllabuses, particularly for specialized core syllabuse...

The diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is intrinsically difficult, and the literature about it is full of confusing terminology. Symptoms may arise due to compression of neural and/or vascular elements in one or more of three different locations. A number of tests were developed during the early part of this century, and a variety of syndromes have been described that relate to these t...