{"id":1052987,"date":"2010-10-19T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/stereotypes-in-medical-photographs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:47:20","slug":"stereotypes-in-medical-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/stereotypes-in-medical-photographs.php","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes in medical photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/short\/340\/mar17_2\/c1524\">BMJ<\/a>:<\/p><p>If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?client=opera&amp;rls=en&amp;q=medicine&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;source=og&amp;sa=N&amp;hl=en&amp;tab=wi\">search \"medicine\" on Google Images<\/a>, you get a hundred million photographs.<\/p><p>The most common image is a stethoscope. The next is a bottle of pills (or, sometimes, red and black capsules). The next is a surgeon, masked and gowned, slicing skin with a scalpel.<\/p><p>Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;client=opera&amp;rls=en&amp;tbs=isch%3A1&amp;sa=1&amp;q=patient&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=g10&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=\">\"patient\"<\/a> and you will find lots of people in stripy pyjamas, lying obediently in bed, often with a spotty rash or a leg strung up in an orthopaedic hoist.<\/p><p>New images are needed to break the century-old stereotypes in medical photographs.<\/p><p>References:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/short\/340\/mar17_2\/c1524\">New images needed: stereotypes in medical photographs<\/a>. BMJ 2010;340:c1524.<\/p><div><p>Posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/casesblog.blogspot.com\/\">Clinical Cases and Images<\/a>. 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The next is a bottle of pills (or, sometimes, red and black capsules). The next is a surgeon, masked and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/neurology\/stereotypes-in-medical-photographs.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurology"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}