What's New in Inclusivity? (July 2025)

Daniel Greenaway
Aug 31
2 min read

The seventh monthly instalment of the "What's New in Inclusivity" blog series will provide opportunities for reading surrounding the topic of inclusivity, highlight what is happening in Anatome, and show what projects have been worked on in the past month.

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Reading List

Recommendations for Fostering Inclusivity in Medical Education

There is a need for medical students and doctors who are aware of inclusivity as our health service grows and diversifies. A petition with over 200,000 signatures called for more teaching with regards to BAME students in the medical curriculum. Differences in the national curriculum means that there is a huge variation in teaching about inclusivity and diversity. Ways to approaching increasing inclusivity include training and an overhaul of university teaching standards. We need more diverse professors to implement these changes.

Bangi, S., Barve, R., Qamar, A (2021) 'Recommendations for Fostering Inclusivity in Medical Education', Academic Medicine, 96(4), pp. 482-483.

Disability and narrative: new directions for medicine and the medical humanities

Those who have disabilities make up a minority of the population but seek health care disproportionately. They also experience healthcare disparities compared to their non-disabled counterparts. The language of medicine and the doctor's account of disability pose a considerable challenge to the disabled person's narrative. People with disabilities encounter obstacles such as neglecting to screen for breast cancer in wheelchair users. Patients may reject the identification of being disabled due to the association of disability with societal stigma, and they “may have internalised that negative perception of disability.”

Garden, R. (2010) ‘Disability and narrative: new directions for medicine and the medical humanities’, Medical Humanities, 36(2), pp. 70-74.