After finding a book of vintage medical illustrations, Eny Lee Parker decided to translate those shapes to clay. By Lizzie Feidelson Nearly everything the ceramist and designer Eny Lee Parker ...

“Corpus” is a collection of vintage medical illustrations, drawings and paintings — both realistic and abstract — of the human body. The work is by 19 artists, most of whom are Floridians.

M edical illustration is both an art and a science. But it can have a huge cultural impact, too, as medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe discovered when his illustration of a pregnant ...

A Black medical student whose medical illustrations featuring a Black pregnant woman went viral in 2021 has sparked a nationwide initiative to diversify images in medicine. The illustrator is ...

Ibe, who will attend Kyiv Medical University in Ukraine next month, became interested in medical illustration in July 2020 and spent a year teaching himself to draw anatomy. From the start, he ...

The image, created by Nigerian medical student and illustrator Chidiebere Ibe, struck a chord with countless people on social media, many of whom said that they had never seen a Black fetus ...

Chidiebere Ibe started drawing medical illustrations featuring Black bodies about a year ago. "I made a deliberate action to constantly advocate that there be inclusion of Black people in medical ...

Ibe only started creating medical illustrations in 2020. On White skin, chicken pox is known to appear as red spots. Here, he depicts how chicken pox might appear on dark skin, with hyperpigmentation.

“Historically [medical illustrations] have always featured white able bodied male figures and still do in the present day,” Ford said. “Bias towards one body type in medical illustration ...

Less than 5% of images in four of the medicine textbooks assigned at top medical schools in the United States show dark skin, researchers found in a 2018 study.