Posted on 05/09/2019 5:57:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Before it was a television show, Grey's Anatomy was a textbook. Published in 1858, Gray's Anatomy (spelled with an "a") quickly became the gold standard in medical illustration, featuring detailed diagrams of everything from the tiny bones in the hand to the internal structure of the eye.
Gray's Anatomy is still in print today, in its 41st edition, but if you open the book up and flip through the pages you might notice something. Or really, the dearth of something: women. And it turns out it's not just Gray's Anatomy that has this problem—almost all medical textbooks are heavily biased towards depicting male bodies.
In 2014, Rhiannon Parker, a researcher at the University of Wollogong in Australia, set out to quantify just how bad that bias actually is. By analyzing more than 6,000 images from 17 anatomy textbooks published between 2008 and 2013, Parker and her colleagues found that only 36 percent of the anatomical images with an identifiable sex were female.
Even more discouraging is the results weren't all that different from a study done in 1994, in which 32 percent of images represented female bodies. "I expected there to be a much bigger improvement on representation," Parker told me.
Not all books were equally biased. General Anatomy, 2nd ed., had the highest proportion of male bodies at 5:1, while Human Anatomy and Physiology, 9th ed. was the only textbook to have the same proportion of male and female bodies. Gray's Anatomy for Students—a condensed version of Gray's Anatomy—has nearly three times more men as women
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In a word: Yes.
They were probably written overwhelmingly by young white men.
For cases on how to treat gunshot wounds, maybe they should use black folks?
Rhiannon Parker, likely a professional pouter, always unhappy and certainly with a lot of time on her hands.
I suspect if they showed black gunshot victims, then they would be charged with racism for perpetuating a cruel stereotype against blacks.
You just can’t win with these people.
A racist is someone who is obsessed with race and makes everything about race.
I wonder who that could be?
Bodies donated for study were probably overwhelmingly males too.
They must because honestly, I. DON’T. CARE.
Make it stop
I suspect if the books focused on young women, sales would necessarily skyrocket....
Dead young white men. I thought that was a good thing?
Unless they’re photos of STDs. Hard to find white photos of those.
Polticization of...
weather
crayons (”flesh” color)
med texts
movies
comic magazines
The list is endless and disgusting
I remember seeing an anatomy book about forty years ago in which the female pictures looked like they were from a porno magazine.
Then another older book in which the anatomical representations were extremely well done, but were from Germany around 1938. Swastikas were removed for USA publication.
Man, if you think this is a problem, you don’t have any problems.
Wonder if they would get all upset looking at Leonardo da Vinci’s books on anatomy.
It was published in 1858.
Most likely bodies dug up in years prior to publishing.
Digging up female bodies might have called for unwanted LE attention.
Grey’s Anatomy isn’t the only medical textbook out there. Pick up a copy of one specializing in infectious diseases or parasitic infections and you’ll see a much wider racial spectrum of ‘patients’ taken from the real world. Grey’s was written when the actors came from London morgues and graverobbers.
I just figured they wouldn’t use black guys, because they’d never get “it” to fit onto just one page.
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