Anatomy drawings have been used for thousands of years, but medical illustration wasn't established as a profession in the United States until the late 19th century, according to the Association ...

Ibe says that a lack of illustrations of skin conditions in Black skin makes it hard for medical students to diagnose them. Mukwende hopes that together they can create “the blueprint for the ...

While recording the details of skin maladies, the illustrations also note locks of hair, rumpled bedding, and, in the case of one patient with scarlet fever, an intricate ruffled bonnet.

According to research, fewer than 5% of images in medical textbooks show dark skin.Though images generally reflect the distribution of the U.S. population by race, with 20% of images showing Black ...

Jenner’s grisly illustrations of misbehaving skin are as much instruments of comfort, then, as they are graphic records of therapeutic intervention: The accurate portrayal of the disease’s ...

Take a deeper look inside your anatomy with the answers to these questions, plus a few bonus facts about your bones, muscles, and organs' helpful counterparts. The skin is the largest organ in the ...

Your brain and skin are interconnected—and when a disorder affects both, treatment must involve a multidisciplinary approach.