Cathy Leamy, presenter at our upcoming Toronto 2012 conference, will be giving a talk and a workshop on cartooning in health care at the International Conference on Health Science & Communications in Providence, Rhode Island June 20-23. From the conference website: Cartooning in Healthcare Cathy Leamy Independent Cartoonist Web developer, Massachusetts General Hospital Comics (including cartoons, comic books and strips, webcomics, graphic novels, and magazines) offer a valuable communication format, especially for medicine and health care. Dry, confusing, or daunting material can be presented in ways that engage and entertain readers, simplify complex topics, cater to different learning styles, and… Read More
A Conversation with Susan Squier
Today’s podcast conversation is with Susan Squier, PhD, Brill Professor of English, Women’s Studies, and Science,Technology and Society Studies at Penn State University. Susan’s teaching and scholarship includes several articles on the use of comics in the medical context. You can download PDFs of some of Susan’s comics scholarship here. In this conversation, we discuss how Susan began working with comics, how she feels comics and medicine are connected, and her hopes for the future of the Graphic Medicine movement. Susan will be presenting on “Studio Time in the Literature and Medicine Classroom” with colleagues at the 2012 Comics &… Read More
A Conversation With Linda Raphael
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. In this conversation, Linda Raphael of George Washington Medical School discusses her work in Graphic Medicine and Medical Humanities. Linda is a professor of English and director of the Medical Humanities program, which she founded, at George Washington University Medical School. Linda will be participating in a panel discussion at the 2012 Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto this July. Linda presented her paper,”Resisting Closure in Graphic Medicine Texts” at the 2011 Graphic Medicine conference in… Read More
Call for Artist
A George Washington Medical School student, Rahul Vanjani, is looking to hire an artist familiar with medical themes for, as he writes, “a health literacy project that I am working on with a local non-profit organization here in D.C. We’re in need of an artist(s) for the project and I was wondering if you might be able to send our information out to your network of comic (and non-comic) artists. An artist who works in or who is familiar with the health care field would be preferable. We will pay the artist for his/her services. Briefly, our current project is… Read More
A Conversation with Michael Green
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. In the first of a series of podcasts featuring scholars who are teaching comics in academic settings, MK talks with Michael Green. He is a doctor of internal medicine and a professor of bioethics and medical humanities at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. Michael has pioneered an intensive course on comics and medicine that he teaches to fourth year medical students. In this course, students read and create graphic medicine texts. You can read… Read More
Ian Williams: AUTO-BIOGRAPHY AS AUTO-THERAPY IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. In the third and final talk of Northwestern Feinberg Medical School’s Graphic Medicine lecture series, Dr. Ian Williams discusses his paper in the current issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities as well as his own work as a comics artist. His talk questions whether or not the act of creating graphic memoir can be a cathartic experience.
Cate Belling: Gruesome, Gross, and Graphic
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, recently sponsored a three-lecture series on Graphic Medicine. The second lecture in the series features Cate Belling discussing, “Gruesome, Gross, and Graphic.”
MK Czerwiec on The Sequential Art of Illness
Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, recently sponsored a three-lecture series on Graphic Medicine. The first of these lectures features MK Czerwiec introducing the field, highlighting some texts, and going on about how everyone should draw more. Introduction by Cate Belling, great comments after the talk from MA/MD students, also Riva Leher, Laurie Zoloth, and Katie Watson.
Making better doctors, a panel at a time
Comics are teaching tool for Penn State College of Medicine students Our colleague, Professor Michael Green, one of the originators and luminaries of Graphic Medicine, teaches a course called ‘Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narratives’ at Penn State College of Medicine in which Medical Students study graphic novels and comics and make their own strips. Michael, his students and the course is featured in this article by Cindy Stauffer in the Read the full article here
Comics Bodies- A Multidisciplinary Symposium
I certainly hope to attend this event featuring Karrie Fransman, Nicola Streeten, and Mary Talbot. There is a call for displays out too! enquiries to Dr Matt Green matt.green@nottingham.ac.uk
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