Sarc is a short comic I did to try and communicate my experiences late in 2019 when I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. I wanted to convey some of the medical journey but also my personal experiences and the impact on those around me. The comic is deliberately left open ended because diagnosis for many is just the start of a journey, especially with chronic illnesses. I (Cole Henley) am a web developer, illustrator and recovering archaeologist from Somerset. You can find out more about me over on my website: https://cole007.net/
My Rights in the Maternity System: A feminist graphic zine inspired by The Freebirth Study
Guest post by Gemma McKenzie “[T]hey just wanted me to be a faceless person, who would lie down and let them do what they wanted me to do… I feel like our whole system feeds into us being obedient, submissive, good girls, and other people taking what’s rightfully ours…” These are the words of an interviewee from my recent study on freebirthing in the UK. I had interviewed sixteen women about their experiences of intentionally giving birth without doctors or midwives present. These were not stories of fast labours and failed attempts to get to the hospital in time; these… Read More
Graphic Medicine for Contact Tracing – Call for collaboration
Graphic Medicine for Contact Tracing We are seeking an artist to collaborate with our research team to produce a public-facing graphic medicine output about public health efforts in contact tracing during the pandemic. We are University of Cambridge-based social researchers who have been collaborating closely with public health experts and community organizations in Hackney since mid-2020. Our project seeks to better understand the successes and challenges of the use of traditional and digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic by collecting and analysing insights from community leaders, community residents, and public health practitioners. The project focuses on the London Borough… Read More
Association of Illustrators Global Health Illustration Awards
Thanks to George Fox Illustration for bringing our attention to this: Global Healthcare Illustration Awards – Inspired and managed by Eradigm Consulting, a global healthcare consultancy, in collaboration with The Association of Illustrators, the competition seeks to attract and celebrate the best healthcare related images created by illustrators the world over, providing greater exposure for those who bring key topics relating to our ever-changing healthcare landscape to life. The Award invites entries from emerging and established illustrators from around the world in all and any topics related to healthcare including: food and nutrition drug addiction infection diseases mental health disability exercise… Read More
The Silent Why Podcast interviews Carol Tyler about grief
The Silent Why podcast is on a mission to talk about loss and grief and are looking for 101 different types of loss, chatting to people who have been through them to see if it’s possible to find hope in each sort of loss. They interviewed Carol Tyler about her latest project, ‘Griefville’ and the death of her husband, Justin Green (Binky Brown Meets The Holy Virgin Mary). Click the image above to listen.
Online Research Seminar – Free Registration
On Monday 25th of April Monica Lalanda and Ian Williams will take part in an online research seminar about Graphic Medicine organised by RACSS – the Research & Comics seminar series. They will be discussing the graphic medicine movement in the UK and Spain. Lily Daniels will be the graphic recorder for the day. The event is online and free but registration is needed. https://lnkd.in/dgwdarwP Registration grants access to the recorded seminar in case attendees would like to view it at another time instead of live. RACSS is a collaboration between Lydia Wysocki (Newcastle University), Jorge Catalá (Newcastle University) and… Read More
Medical Humanities online conference with free registration.
Please see the online conference on Medical Humanities below. Registration is free. There are sessions devoted to graphic and narrative medicine. Registration is open until April 8, 2022: https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east/schedule
Call for papers – The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East (online)
The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East (online) April 9-10, 2022 Doha, Qatar Submission Deadline: February 15, 2022 The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East invites proposals for oral presentations, posters, and creative work on the topics of design and medicine, art and medicine, narrative medicine, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, expressive arts therapies, literature and medicine, history of medicine, the anthropology, psychology, and sociology of medicine/health care and other humanistic initiatives within the context of health, medicine, and medical education in the Middle East and North Africa… Read More
Crafting Contention through MadZines: Helen Spandler in conversation with Meg-John Barker
The MadZines research project is exploring how zines craft contention about mental health knowledge and practice. One of the purposes of the project is to explore the potential of zines to foster dialogue about contested issues in mental health. As part of this, the project team are having a series of dialogues with Mad-Zinesters (people who create and share zines about madness and distress). In the following extract from one of these conversations, Helen Spandler (HS) talks to Meg-John Barker (MJB) about how the comic graphics in their zines ‘craft contention’ about mental health. HS: Can you remember how… Read More
Spotlight on Theo Phizza – Notes from the Asylum #1
Guest Post by Theo Phizza Following redundancy from a company at which I had worked for 22 years I was admitted to a mental health facility (“the Facility”) at the beginning of 2020 to be treated for generalised anxiety disorder (“GAD”) partly triggered by the redundancy situation. I first saw a Psychiatric Consultant in December 2019 who advised me that in-patient treatment would probably be best for me. It later turned out he had been a Psychiatric Advisor on a series of Big Brother. This seemed to me to be a possible cause of confusion as this Cartoon shows…. Read More
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