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Reflections on the Boom of Graphic Pathography: The Effects and Affects of Narrating Disability and Illness in Comics

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 »

Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare

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 »

Connecting the Dots: Evaluating the Impact of Graphic Medicine to Empower Patient-Centered Technology Use

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 »

De-stigmatizing Mental Illness through Graphic Medicine

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 »

Blind Readers and Comics: Reflecting on Comics’ Storytelling from a Different Perspective

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 »

Dismantling the “Visual Ease Assumption:” A Review of Visual Narrative Processing in Clinical Populations

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 »

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 »