Category Archives: review

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 »

Comic Relief: Graphic Anthology Chronicles Fear, Uncertainty and Hope amid Pandemic’s Early Days

Rifkind, C. (2021). Comic relief: graphic anthology chronicles fear, uncertainty and hope amid pandemic’s early days. Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved from https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/comic-relief-574264732.html ABSTRACT: As we move into a possible third wave of COVID-19, the early days of the pandemic in spring 2020 are starting to feel like a distant past, when everything was in flux… 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 »

The Art of Kaddish

Abramowitz, H.B. (2019). The art of Kaddish, The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved from https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/The-art-of-Kaddish-610754. ABSTRACT: Life Support: Invitation to Prayer, by Israel-based American artist Judith Margolis, is an autobiographical account of an adult woman who is catapulted into her mother’s progressively complex end-of-life conundrum as she slips into the abyss of advanced diabetes. It is not… Read More »