Tag Archives: narrative medicine

Comics as Anti-racist Education and Advocacy

Obuobi, S., Vela, M. B., & Callender, B. (2021). Comics as anti-racist education and advocacy. The Lancet 397 (10285), 1615-1617. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00940-5. ABSTRACT: Academic medicine is increasingly recognising the importance of teaching about structural racism in medicine to help ameliorate racial health-care disparities. Yet such teaching can be challenging and, in some settings, considered controversial. Leveraging the power of… Read More »

Graphic Medicine: How Do the Materialities of Ink, Image and Illness Relate?

Frølunde, L. (2019, January). Graphic medicine: How do the materialities of ink, image and illness relate? Paper presented at the Comics and Society: Research, Art, and Cultural Politics – Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/publications/graphic-medicine-how-do-the-materialities-of-ink-image-and-illnes ABSTRACT: The presentation concerns graphic medicine with focus on materialities regarding two examples of texts about… Read More »