Gender bias and the JAMA study: are medical illustration and the A.M.I. politically correct?
The May/June 1996 Association of Medical Illustration News issued an alert to its membership. An article by Kristin Mount raised the spectre of gender bias against women in medical illustration (Mount 1996). She cited the findings of a 1994 research project in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found female images significantly underrepresented in various medical texts, possibly to the detriment of women. The present article gauges the seriousness of the problem and suggests ways of dealing with it.
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