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Graphic Medicine: Comics Redraw Health Narratives

McKinney, D. W. (2023). Graphic medicine: comics redraw health narratives. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved from https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/graphic-medicine-comics-redraw-health-narratives/ ABSTRACT: There is currently no substantial empirical data on the impact of graphic narratives in medical settings. However, these narratives provide anecdotal but highly detailed accounts that could improve how medical professionals assess patients and administer care.… Read More »

Crashing Course: An Interview with Matthew Klein

Lewis, A. D. (2022). Crashing course: an interview with Matthew Klein. Graphic Medicine. Retrieve from https://www.graphicmedicine.org/crashing-course-an-interview-with-matthew-klein/ ABSTRACT: Even in a world of superpowers and arch villains, healthcare can still be fraught, frustrating, and even futile. In Matthew Klein and Morgan Beem’s series Crashing (IDW Publishing), Dr. Rose Osler must push against her hospital’s policy of… Read More »

How Best to Share Research with Study Participants? A Randomised Crossover Trial Comparing a Comic, Lay Summary, and Scientific Abstract

Kearns, C., Eathorne, A., Kearns, N., Anderson, A., Hatter, L., Semprini, A., & Beasley, R. (2022). How best to share research with study participants? A randomised crossover trial comparing a comic, lay summary, and scientific abstract. Journal of visual communication in medicine, 45(3), 172–181. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17453054.2022.2056321 ABSTRACT: Healthcare research is traditionally published in academic papers, coded in scientific… Read More »

The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6

Lewis, A. D. (2022). The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/03/30/the-body-politic-a-review-of-cells-at-work-vols-1-6/ ABSTRACT: In transforming the body’s routines and responses into a manga narrative, Cells at Work! fashions a social system for its cellular characters.1 That system, notably, more resembles a socialist autocracy than the democracy familiar to… Read More »

Addressing Psychiatric Disorders and Genetics: The Meaningful Use of Comics for Health Information

Paixão Pequeno, D., Pequeno Galvão, L., & Lourenço, G. J. (2022). Addressing psychiatric disorders and genetics: the meaningful use of comics for health information. Journal of visual communication in medicine, 45(3), 154–159. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1080/17453054.2022.2029369 ABSTRACT: In the fields of healthcare and education, comics have shown considerable academic and teaching importance, with their combination of text and images. As… Read More »

No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics

Janina Wildfeuer, Ielka van der Sluis, Gisela Redeker & Nina van der Velden (2022) No laughing matter!? Analyzing the Page Layout of Instruction Comics, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2053559 ABSTRACT: The study reported in this paper analyzes the specific genre of ‘instruction comics’ with regard to typical patterns of comic book pages. As a sequential-pictorial genre with… Read More »

‘The Time Is Out of Joint’: Temporality, COVID-19 and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., Joshi, I. A. (2022). ‘The time is out of joint’: temporality, COVID-19 and graphic medicine. Medical Humanities 48:e15. Retrieved from https://mh.bmj.com/content/48/4/e15 ABSTRACT: This article aims to theorise the human experiences of time during the lockdown (in the first phase of the pandemic) and the COVID-19 pandemic through the verbo-visual exposition of graphic medicine that combines the medium… Read More »