On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner@wikimedia.org> wrote:

It seems to me that if we had access to the kinds of best practices or
guiding principles used in the medical profession, that might give us
some guidance for how to select images that are optimally neutral for
educational purposes. Because as your note implies, that expertise
does already exist.

Thanks,
Sue

Sue,

Not exactly what you were asking about but related.

These are some policy statements about consent from patients for the use of their image in a medical publication.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1112855/

http://www.acmg.net/resources/policies/pol-020.pdf

Commons now does not require consent for images of people that are not identifiable. This does not meet the newer standards adopted by medical groups. This is particulary concerning since our license encourages reuse. We are lowering the standard for obtaining medical images and encouraging other people to do so too.

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight