Category Archives: journal

Impact of an Educational Comic to Enhance Patient-Physician–Electronic Health Record Engagement: Prospective Observational Study

Alkureishi, M., Johnson, T., Nichols, J., Dhodapkar, M., Czerwiec, M. K., Wroblewski, K., Arora, V., & Lee, W. W. (2021). Impact of an educational comic to enhance patient-physician–electronic health record engagement: prospective observational study. JMIR Hum Factors 8(2):e25054. Retrieved from https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2021/2/e25054 ABSTRACT: Electronic health record (EHR) use can impede or augment patient-physician communication. However, little… Read More »

Comics in the Time of a Pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Metaphors

Saji, S., Venkatesan, S., & Callender, B. (2021). Comics in the time of a pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, graphic medicine, and metaphors. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 64(1). Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/785097 ABSTRACT: Comics have always responded to pandemics/catastrophes, documenting the way we deal with such crises. Recently, graphic medicine, an interdisciplinary field of comics and medicine, has been curating… Read More »

Bringing Superheroes into the Fight against COVID-19 Misinformation

Venkatesan, S., & Lewis, A. D. (2021). Bringing superheroes into the fight against COVID-19 misinformation. The Caravan. Retrieved from https://caravanmagazine.in/health/superheroes-in-the-fight-against-covid19-misinformation ABSTRACT: In March 2020, Indian comic book publisher Raj Comics released Nagraj Strikes: The Attack of Coronaman, a comic on how Coronaman, a hideous and insidious villain, takes over the fictional city of Mahanagar to infect… Read More »

“We Are All Living In Finite Bodies”: A Conversation About Graphic Medicine

Thomas, I. (2021). “We are all living in finite bodies”: a conversation about graphic medicine. The Comics Journal. Retrieved from http://www.tcj.com/ian-thomas-graphic-medicine-interview/ ABSTRACT: The Graphic Medicine website was launched in 2007 as an outgrowth of Dr. Ian Williams’ post-graduate work in the study of fine art and Medical Humanities. Now a practicing physician based in the… Read More »

Integrating medical education with graphic narration: interview with Dr. Priyanga Singh

Bhattacharjee, P., & Tripathi, P. (2021). Integrating medical education with graphic narration: interview with Dr. Priyanga Singh. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1870513 ABSTRACT: In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi discuss and analyse Dr. Priyanga Singh’s contributions as a medical illustrator. In her illustrations, Dr. Singh integrates her knowledge of medicine and experience as a medical… Read More »

Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer.

McMullin, J., Rushing, S., Sueyoshi, M., & Salman J. (2021). Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer. Cult Med Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s11013-020-09703-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33403497. ABSTRACT: Cancer is regarded as a disease that redefines an individual’s life and relationships. The medicalization and reclamation of the individual’s sense… Read More »

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 »