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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so what??
FFS get over it and join the HUMAN RACE!
When you are a race baiter everything is racist.
Lips?
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.
Yes.
Ya, well stick men are almost always black. What’s the point?
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?
I bet she’s a blast on a date. Is the sarcasm tag needed?
Big whoop! The NBA overwhelmingly use pictures of black players when advertising...
But I thought leftists liked their white men dead?
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.
Yes. Yes they do.
But hey...we're all pink on the inside, no?
Its twue! It’s twue!
That was my exact thought. These people are pathetic.
Someone seems fixated on something.
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!
I have a black friend who showed up at a party very embarrassed about her appearance. She got sunburned.
She was purple.
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