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POSTPONED: Black Medical Illustrations and Their Importance in Medicine In-Person
This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
We hope to rechedule in the near future.
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Medical illustrations predominantly depict white male bodies, Black illustrators say. Less than 5% of images in four of the medicine textbooks assigned at top medical schools in the United States show dark skin, researchers found in a 2018 study.
Ibe, who attends Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine, became interested in medical illustration in July 2020 and spent a year teaching himself to draw anatomy. From the start, he realized that there was a lack of diversity in the images he was studying.
Meredith Solomon