Kavanagh, R. (2019, August 29). The graphic art of medicine, The Medical Independent. Retrieved from https://www.medicalindependent.ie/the-graphic-art-of-medicine/ ABSTRACT: Dr. Ronan Kavanagh speaks to GP and graphic medicine artist Dr. Ian Williams, who will be curating an exhibition of graphic medicine at this years’ sold out dotMD conference. Dr. Ian Williams is the author of two graphic novels: The Bad… Read More »
Wegner, G. (2019). Reflections on the boom of graphic pathography: the effects and affects of narrating disability and illness in comics, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. Retrieved from https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/jlcds.2019.18 ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, autobiographical comics that focus on experiences of illness and disability—a genre also known as “graphic pathography”—have not only received… Read More »
Venkatesan, S. & Murali, C. J Med Humanit (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z ABSTRACT: Comics has always had a critical engagement with socio-political and cultural issues and hence evolved into a medium with a subversive power to challenge the status quo. Staying true to the criticality of the medium, graphic medicine (where comics intersects with the discourse… Read More »
Nichols, J.W., Johnson, T., Lee, W.W., Czerwiec, M.K., Arora, V., & Alkureishi, M.L. (2019). Connecting the dots: evaluating the impact of graphic medicine to empower patient-centered technology use, Pediatrics 144(2). Retrieved from https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/144/2_MeetingAbstract/232.full ABSTRACT: Electronic health record (EHR) use impacts patient-centered communication. Therefore, how providers use EHR during clinical interactions is key. Unfortunately, providers receive little training specific… Read More »
Tsuda, Megumi, “De-stigmatizing Mental Illness through Graphic Medicine” (2019). SKMC JeffMD Scholarly Inquiry, Phase 1, Project 1. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/si_hum_2021_phase1/3/ ABSTRACT: Graphic medicine – or the communication of health-related narratives through images and texts, such as comics – has been increasingly recognized as a powerful educational tool. My project investigates the value of integrating graphic medicine to… Read More »
Dittmar, J. F. (2019). Blind readers and comics: reflecting on comics’ storytelling from a different perspective. Comics Forum. Retrieved from https://comicsforum.org/2019/08/04/blind-readers-and-comics/ ABSTRACT: This paper discusses comics for the blind, based on the example of the tactile comic life by Philipp Meyer and Astérix par Touchtatis ! by Olivier Poncer. It looks into the potential and the restrictions of sequential pictorial… Read More »
Coderre, E. L. (2019). Dismantling the “visual ease assumption:” a review of visual narrative processing in clinical populations, Topics in Cognitive Science. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tops.12446 https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12446 ABSTRACT: Visual narratives, such as wordless picture books and picture sequences like comics, have a long history in clinical testing, research, and intervention settings. The widespread “Visual Ease Assumption”… Read More »