Full Description
This edited volume draws on scholarly research and critical thinking about decolonization in the biomedical sciences, anatomical education and healthcare by authors from different areas within the biomedical arena, providing a multiplicity of perspectives.
The authors appeal to and address educators in anatomical and medical education, medical doctors, researchers, scientists and illustrators in the biomedical arena. They add to current and ongoing conversations about the need for addressing Eurocentric and colonial thinking which have prejudicially impacted anatomical education, imagery production, healthcare delivery, medical diagnoses, funding and research. This book provides details of the historical origins of entrenched colonial and Eurocentric thinking which negatively impact on our biomedical field at numerous levels, to the detriment of many recipients of medical education and healthcare. Chapters address how a Eurocentric and colonial worldview is expressed in the production of the many images of the human body in educational material, that has till very recently depicted only people with light skin tones, to the exclusion of people with darker skin tones.
The chapters in this book do not represent an 'attack' on our current educational and healthcare systems, but rather call for a change in scholarly teaching and academic research. Guidelines are offered for implementing practical changes. These discussions appear at a time in which the Global South is increasingly participating in and contributing to biomedical discourse.
This book will appeal to educators of (bio) medicine in general and human anatomy in particular who are interested in the current thinking and discourse about increasing cultural inclusivity and visual equity in biomedical teaching and health care. We hope that these chapters stimulate thinking, promote discussion and contribute to the ongoing decolonial discourse within the biomedical arena.
Contents
Chapter 1. Decolonizing Healthcare Education: From Historical Exclusion to Equitable Practice.- Chapter 2. Decolonizing Anatomy: Examining and Unpicking the Relationship Between Coloniality, Sex, Gender, and the Body.- Chapter 3. Visualizing Racial Diversity in Anatomy Curricula Entrenches 'Race' as a Biological Phenomenon.- Chapter 4. Constructing the Body: The Intersection of Standardizing Anatomy, Illustration, and Digitization.- Chapter 5. Visualizing Diversity: Addressing Bias in Anatomical Representation.- Chapter 6. Visualizing Equity: Addressing Racial and Cultural Representation in Anatomy Education and Biomedical Imagery.- Chapter 7. Embodied Data: Exploring the Impact of Biometric Visualization Techniques on Global Health Equity.- Chapter 8. Inclusivity within Living Anatomy Imagery.- Chapter 9. Diversifying and Decolonizing Oral Medicine's Clinical Images in Health Science Teaching: Rectifying Colonial and Racial Biases Through the Creation of an Interactive e-Resource.- Chapter 10. Decolonizing Chemokine and Chemokine Receptor Expression in Acute Allograft Rejection (AAR) - An Overview.- Chapter 11. Visualising the Co-creation Process of Enhancing Inclusive and Diversified Biomedical Sciences, Anatomy Education and Healthcare Curricula.
