Monthly Archives: January 2019

Graphic Medicine: How Do the Materialities of Ink, Image and Illness Relate?

Frølunde, L. (2019, January). Graphic medicine: How do the materialities of ink, image and illness relate? Paper presented at the Comics and Society: Research, Art, and Cultural Politics – Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/publications/graphic-medicine-how-do-the-materialities-of-ink-image-and-illnes ABSTRACT: The presentation concerns graphic medicine with focus on materialities regarding two examples of texts about… Read More »

Writing Medical Comics

Waite, M. (2019). Writing medical comics, Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1080/17453054.2019.1575641 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17453054.2019.1575641 ABSTRACT: The emergent field of medical comics is being lauded as a way to visually communicate medical information to patients more effectively than current methods. However, there is very little advice available in the literature as to how to design them. This… Read More »

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2018). Infertility comics and graphic medicine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61(4), p. 609-621. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/713167/summary ABSTRACT: Cultures around the world are replete with images of women as the epitome of love, kindness, patience, and similar virtues, owing to their ability to give birth. Consequently, those who cannot give birth due… Read More »