Mind The Gap Book Skin. Malone’s book comes after british doctors and. A handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin.
Erythema refers to the red appearance of skin associated with inflammation and infection. Mukwende has now launched a website called black & brown skin which provides a way for individuals to submit images and personal stories anonymously to. The book and project aim to highlight the lack of diversity in medical literature and education.
About our vision the team press further resources contact conditions head and neck chest abdomen upper limb lower limb ways to help submissions our stories mind the gap.
In the first image (folliculitis) you will note the red/purple hue immediately surrounding the pustules. Malone mukwende is a medical student and he has helped to produce a guide called mind the gap. Mind the gap is a handbook to raise awareness of how symptoms and signs can present differently on darker skin as well as highlighting the different language that needs to be used in descriptors.the aim of this booklet is to educate students and essential allied health care professionals on the importance of recognising that certain clinical signs do not present the same on darker skin. About our vision the team press further resources contact conditions head and neck chest abdomen upper limb lower limb ways to help submissions our stories mind the gap.