Monthly Archives: July 2019

Fanon’s Police Inspector

Ann E Fink

Fink, A. E. (2019) Fanon’s police inspector, AJOB Neuroscience 10(3), 137-144. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21507740.2019.1632970 ABSTRACT: Frantz Fanon practiced psychiatry in a colonized Algeria during its struggle for independence. In his 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon described cases from his treatment of Algerian nationalists and French colonists. I present one of Fanon’s cases as an ethical inquiry into posttraumatic… Read More »

It’s Okay to Stare: Visual and Unseen Disabilities in Comic Book Super Heroes

Butler, B. H. (2019). It’s Okay to Stare: Visual and Unseen Disabilities in Comic Book Super Heroes, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction 3(2), pp. 93-108. https://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/650/366 ABSTRACT: Since their inception in the 1930s, comic books and graphic novels featuring superheroes have reflected innumerable elements of science fiction, from space travel to technological human augmentation. Similar… Read More »

Towards a Theory of Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Peter, A. M. (2019). Towards a theory of graphic medicine, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 11(2), pp. 1-19. Retrieved from http://rupkatha.com/V11/n2/v11n208.pdf ABSTRACT: As a constructive derivative of several altruistic movements, such as narrative medicine, medical humanities and health humanities, graphic medicine is a nonconformist ideological inverse to the absolutism of… Read More »

Healthcare for the Masses: Graphic Medicine

Noe, M. (ed.). (2019). Healthcare for the masses: graphic medicine. Booklist. Retrieved from https://www.booklistonline.com/Healthcare-for-the-Masses-Graphic-Medicine/pid=9720940 ABSTRACT: Written from the perspective of a librarian from Harvard Medical School, this overview of Graphic Medicine and its abundant growth in recent years. Noe highlights the diversity present in the rising field and points to work being done at Penn… Read More »