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Twelve Years of Graphic Medicine: A Conversation with Comic Nurse on the Future of Comics and Medicine

Kasthuri, R. R., & Peter, A. M. (2021). Twelve years of graphic medicine: a conversation with comic nurse on the future of comics and medicine. Configurations 29(1): 97-106. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/780759 ABSTRACT: Illness narratives in the comics medium gained renewed attention when graphic medicine emerged in 2007 as an interdisciplinary approach towards rethinking the affective… Read More »

Superhero Healthcare : Graphic Medicine, Genre and Public Education Comics

Sinclair, M. (2020). Superhero healthcare : graphic medicine, genre and public education comics. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Dundee]. EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.818451  ABSTRACT: This thesis has created a new sub-genre Superhero Healthcare and has tracked its development and its potential as a pedagogical resource. This study argues that the sub-genre stems from both graphic medicine and… Read More »

Our Global Guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine”

Lewis, A. D. (2020). Our global guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On health humanities and graphic Medicine”. The Golden Line: A Magazine of English Literature. Retrieved from http://goldenline.bhattercollege.ac.in/v3n103b/ ABSTRACT: Graphic Medicine, the intersection between comic books and medicine/healthcare, is growing worldwide, especially in India. Among its pioneers there is Sathyaraj Venkatesan, whose approach and utilization… Read More »

Graphic Medicine—The Best of 2020

Green, M.J., & Wall S. (2020). Graphic medicine—the best of 2020. JAMA. Retrieved from doi:10.1001/jama.2020.19479 ABSTRACT: Unsurprisingly, some of the most important and interesting work in graphic medicine in 2020 related to the coronavirus pandemic. The sheer volume of comics-based material related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is immense and growing daily. For this reason we focus… Read More »

Literature and Medicine Welcomes Comics Editor MK Czerwiec

Literature and Medicine. (2020). Literature and Medicine welcomes comics editor MK Czerwiec. Literature and Medicine. Retrieved from https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/literature-and-medicine-welcomes-comics-editor-mk-czerwiec ABSTRACT: The journal Literature and Medicine recently welcomed its new editorial board, including MK Czerwiec, who has been named the journal’s first Comics Editor.  MK Czerwiec is a nurse, educator, author, comic creator, and one of the co-creators of the field… Read More »

The Visual Language of Pain

Graywill, K. L. (2020). The visual language of pain. [Master’s thesis, University of London]. Retrieved from https://www.klgraywill.com/visualpain ABSTRACT: This study sought to address a gap in the literature surrounding what kind of images have the capacity to evoke empathetic behavior, and what characteristics of those images enable them to be perceived as beautiful. To explore… Read More »