Hall, R.C.W., Friedman, S.H. (2020). Don’t Laugh at the Comics: a Modern Take. Acad Psychiatry. https://doi-org/10.1007/s40596-020-01257-2 ABSTRACT: Although comic books may be used to educate the lay public and medical students, the comic book industry and mental health fields have often had a tumultuous relationship—which unfortunately can also yield the opposite result of perpetuating stigma. […]… Read More »
Garrison-Joyner, V. & Caravella, E. (2020) Lapses in literacy: cultural accessibility in graphic health communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, 29:3, iii-xxv, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2020.1768295 ABSTRACT: This graphic meditation on issues of cultural relevance and accessibility in comic-based health communication texts presents the web of rhetorical considerations inherent in creating culturally accessible health communication texts. Applying recent technical communication theories related to social justice this… Read More »
Masel, E.K., Adamidis, F., Kitta, A., Gruebl, A. Unseld, M., Pavelka, P., Hans Watzke, H.2, Zlabinger, G., & Praschinger, A. (2020). Using medical comics to explore challenging everyday topics in medicine: lessons learned from teaching medical humanities. Ann Palliat Med. apm-20-261. doi:10.21037/apm-20-261 ABSTRACT: Studying medicine requires an extensive acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes. At the MedUni Vienna, this… Read More »
Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2020) Drawing infertility: an interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1764074 ABSTRACT: Although infertility is a gender-neutral health quandary, women are often blamed and stigmatised for the couple’s failure to reproduce. The valorisation of the maternal within the discursive constructions of womanhood engenders… Read More »
MCPHS University. (2020). More than comics: graphic medicine in the time of COVID-19. About MCPHS: News. Retrieved from https://www.mcphs.edu/about-mcphs/news/graphic-medicine-in-the-time-of-covid-19 ABSTRACT: Most people probably don’t know the term “graphic medicine.” But they see it more often than they might think—especially now. Those images on posters or online showing you how to wash your hands properly? Graphic… Read More »
Lewis, A. D. (2020). Of faith and medicine: when comic book Muslims go to the hospital, Mizan Pop. Retrieved from https://mizanproject.org/pop-post/of-faith-and-medicine/ ABSTRACT: A curious thing happens with Muslim characters in comics when they enter a hospital: they become somehow more Muslim. It is like a superpower, yet it occurs both in the superhero genre and beyond. That… Read More »
Venkatesan, S., & Saji, S. (2020). Of comics and bipolar disorder: a conversation with Rachel Lindsay. World Literature Today. Retrieved from https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/spring/comics-and-bipolar-disorder-conversation-rachel-lindsay-sathyaraj-venkatesan-sweetha ABSTRACT: Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists… Read More »