Atlaszok és testek. Anatómiai testkonstrukciók a 20. század elején
Atlases and Bodies. Construction of Anatomical Bodies in the Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the first Hungarian editions of two anatomical atlases published in the 1910s. Both Toldt’s An atlas of human anatomy and Sobotta’s Atlas and textbook of human anatomy became crucial materials for Hungarian medical training during the next decades, Sobotta’s more so than Toldt’s. My goal is to examine and compare the texts and images of these two works, to see how they fit in the broader traditions of atlas making, how they relate to the new imaging techniques emerging in this period, what sort of body image they present, and whether it is possible to explain along epistemological, pedagogical or esthetical lines, why one of them became more defining than the other.

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