Normalising the female body

[CandyLeBonBon]

I don't know whether this will be important or interesting to anyone, but I just saw this on LinkedIn - a new training resource for students studying anatomy and was hugely encouraged at the development by Elsevier surrounding the teaching and normalising of the female body as an equal training model in healthcare - as opposed to making female characteristics 'man-lite'. Things like skeletal mass, muscle density, differences in nerve configuration are all represented to accurately represent female anatomy.

See the link here: vimeo.com/656163825

In the light of so much wilful misinformation and dismissal of the differences in female biology and anatomy, I just felt heartened to see that this had been developed and created to better understand and represent the unique differences in the female body. So I thought I'd share (Im not an elsevier employee or anything, I just saw it and thought it was interesting!) / hope that's ok? It just felt important.

That is really cool, Candy. Thanks for highlighting.

This is really good to see. Medical students need to understand the similarities as well as differences between the sexes. It's about time that separate female anatomy models are used that accurately represent our bodies. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks!
Extraordinary though, that this is a new resource in 2022.

Fascinating.

Interesting, but equally, in 2022, absurd that we should feel relieved and grateful.

Thank you for posting this.

www.insidescience.org/news/why-it-could-be-time-sex-specific-drugs

gendermed.org/about-gsm/

There seems to be a bit of a movement to make medecine/healthcare more sex specific.

Useful, thanks OP.

Awesome

Female patients are 32% more likely to die when treated by a male surgeon, so training resources like this are long overdue.

That's great thank you.

@ErrolTheDragon

Thanks! Extraordinary though, that this is a new resource in 2022.

I thought that too. I'm just glad there is some clear pushback in the medical arena that recognises sex-based differences.

Thank you to the posters who provided links here

The bias is awful. Agree.

I'm not an aberration of normal that needs to be put in a little box on the side of the page of an anatomy book.

Ugh. Not so sure about the GSM. There are lots of stats but no references and she seems to imply that there is a biological cause of transgenderism - which would, frankly, be BRILLIANT because then it could be defined, but as she doesn't give a reference...haven't listened to the radio article yet, though.

gendermed.org/close-up-radio-welcomes-back-dr-legato/

Excellent!