Medical Textbooks Overwhelmingly Use Pictures of Young White Men

Vice ^ | May 9, 2019 | Rose Eveleth

[aquila48]

Blacks make up 13% of the population yet they appear in 90% of commercials, and usually as the smartest and/or coolest person in the ad.

[ConservaTeen]

I know I'm a teen, but really, medical textbooks discriminate against other races and women?? Okay, when talking about childbirth, should the man be giving birth (which is hard to do if he is an XY male...).

Coming soon, Gray's Anatomy - Liberal and Transgender Edition. No picture of White men will be allowed...😀

[hal ogen]

Trannies and LIBS get lots of time in psychiatric and psychological texts.

[Kenny Bania]

Politically correct medical textbook alternative for snowflakes:

[Monterrosa-24]

The real issue here is that between the time when Grey’s Anatomy was first published and 1930, women’s life expectancy was greatly increased. By 1930 women’s deaths in childbirth had become very rare. This was mostly due to advances made by the White male-dominated medical establishment. But don’t say “thank you”. Instead just beef and whine about racism and sexism.

[shanover]

There were pictures in my anatomy class of a very hot white chick in my textbook. It really motivated me.

[ConservaTeen]

Especially from ChiCongo...

[ConservaTeen]

I think she needs a date...Maybe if she had a male in her life she might be happier and she wouldn't be upset at STUPID THINGS...

But I bet she is upset at me for saying she needs a date...

[ConservaTeen]

Post #36...What aren't they upset about?? If their favorite baseball team won a game 10 to 1, they would complain that, A) The pitcher let a run in ..or

2) Their favorite player either went 0 for 5 or cause an error...

Stupid unhappy libs...

[Secret Agent Man]

There would be no modern medicine as we know it if not for white men, and young white men.

[myerson]

It’s easier to see the detail using a young, white person.

[real saxophonist]

On the surface, she doesn't look like she'd have problems getting a date:

...so the problems are under the surface.

[Yaelle]

I sure hate it when you get your x ray and radiography textbooks, and all of the bones and tissue images are from white men!

(Because of course you can tell from those bacterial closeups and skeletons)

[YogicCowboy]

The only group that may not be homogeneous is white.

Gray’s Anatomy was not produced in China.

[BobL]

That’s because only real men lead countries [women just flood them with ‘refugees’] and therefore medicine had to target them.

[sten]

gee... could it be that modern medicine was pioneered by WHITE MEN ?

could there be some reason the whole continent of africa doesn’t have much of a medical program?

[trebb]

And women pics would only be needed for female-specific conditions...it’s a medical book - not a feel-good olio of diversity (except for diseases and anatomical issues)

[a fool in paradise]

that drawing discriminates against Americans with disabilities and congenitally attached twins.

[bboop]

My little brother, on a form that asked for ‘color,’ put ‘pink and beige.’ I thought that was so cute.