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Medical Textbooks Overwhelmingly Use Pictures of Young White Men
Vice ^ | May 9, 2019 | Rose Eveleth

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: antiwhiteracism; fakeoutrage; fauxoutrage; firstworldproblems; graysanatomy; medicaltextbooks; phonyoutrage; racism
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To: EdnaMode

so what??


21 posted on 05/09/2019 6:19:57 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: EdnaMode

FFS get over it and join the HUMAN RACE!


22 posted on 05/09/2019 6:20:21 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: EdnaMode

When you are a race baiter everything is racist.


23 posted on 05/09/2019 6:20:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dfwgator

Lips?


24 posted on 05/09/2019 6:22:40 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These professionally offended argue that race doesn’t exist, yet filter their entire world view through the power dynamics of race relations over all else. I say have your cake and run or eat it here and justify.


25 posted on 05/09/2019 6:24:05 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (NRT, NewRome Tacitus, just don't call me late to dinner.)
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To: EdnaMode

Yes.


26 posted on 05/09/2019 6:29:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: EdnaMode

Ya, well stick men are almost always black. What’s the point?


27 posted on 05/09/2019 6:29:12 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: EdnaMode

How well does a skin rash show up on a black persons skin? How easily does a black persons body show up in a medical text book. Do the medical text books in Kenya, Africa show pictures of black people?


28 posted on 05/09/2019 6:29:42 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: EdnaMode

I bet she’s a blast on a date. Is the sarcasm tag needed?


29 posted on 05/09/2019 6:30:09 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: EdnaMode

Big whoop! The NBA overwhelmingly use pictures of black players when advertising...


30 posted on 05/09/2019 6:32:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: EdnaMode

31 posted on 05/09/2019 6:37:14 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: EdnaMode

But I thought leftists liked their white men dead?


32 posted on 05/09/2019 6:39:34 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: EdnaMode

There wasn’t one black man in any of my medical textbooks. I don’t remember any of my academics being black or books written by a black person. I did see a number of pictures of black horses, cows, and retrievers though.


33 posted on 05/09/2019 6:47:06 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: EdnaMode
Do these people wake up every day trying to figure out what to be outraged about?

Yes. Yes they do.

But hey...we're all pink on the inside, no?

34 posted on 05/09/2019 6:58:59 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: dfwgator

Its twue! It’s twue!


35 posted on 05/09/2019 7:00:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: EdnaMode

36 posted on 05/09/2019 7:01:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

That was my exact thought. These people are pathetic.


37 posted on 05/09/2019 7:01:48 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: EdnaMode

Someone seems fixated on something.


38 posted on 05/09/2019 7:05:14 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; EdnaMode

Our family doctor at Subic Bay (Lt. Davidson) gave me a Gray’s Anatomy as a gift (and a dissecting kit he put together for me)

He knew I was interested in Medicine. That was a great thing he did.

Of course I had to check out the female anatomy in the book. I was a 12 year old boy...but I had to admit, it wasn’t much to get excited about. Those were dry drawings!


39 posted on 05/09/2019 7:06:35 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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To: Trumpet 1

I have a black friend who showed up at a party very embarrassed about her appearance. She got sunburned.

She was purple.


40 posted on 05/09/2019 7:06:37 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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