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Home / Comics and Medicine

Spotlight: Sarc, by Cole Henley

Jan. 25, 2023 by Ian Williams

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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/

Categories: Cancer, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Health Education, Spotlight Tags: biopsy, cancer, Cole Henley, sarc, sarcoidosis

My Rights in the Maternity System: A feminist graphic zine inspired by The Freebirth Study

Nov. 23, 2022 by Ian Williams

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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

Categories: Bioethics, comics, Comics and Medicine, Health Education, Public Health, Resources, zine Tags: Free birthing, Gemma McKenzie, obstetrics, pregnancy, trauma

Graphic Medicine for Contact Tracing – Call for collaboration

Oct. 13, 2022 by Ian Williams

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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

Categories: Call for Collaboration, comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Public Health Tags: call for collaboration, Hackney, public health

Medical Humanities online conference with free registration.

Apr. 6, 2022 by Ian Williams

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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

Categories: comics, Comics and Medicine, Health Humanities, history of medicine, Medical Humanities, Research, symposia Tags: medical humanities, Qatar

Call for papers – The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East (online) 

Dec. 31, 2021 by Ian Williams

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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

Categories: Bioethics, Call For Papers, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Health Education, Health Humanities, history of medicine, Medical Humanities, papers, PathoGraphics, Research, symposia Tags: Call for papers  The Medical Humanities, middle east

New Podcast Episode: 2020 Graphic Medicine in Review

Dec. 11, 2020 by Comic Nurse

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In this month’s episode, MK talks with a panel of guests about the best Graphic Medicine of 2020. The conversation begins with Shelley Wall and Michael Green discussing their article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) about the best graphic medicine of 2020, COVID-19 comics. Then graphic medicine librarians Alice Jaggers and Matthew Noe add their thoughts and further recommendations to the conversation. Finally, the group shares some of their favorite reading from 2020, graphic medicine and beyond. Listen below or subscribe to the Graphic Medicine podcast. Scroll down for links to all books and projects mentioned… Read More

Categories: comics, Comics and Medicine, Podcast, Podcasts

Ladies Con 2020 Graphic Medicine Panel

Oct. 14, 2020 by Comic Nurse

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Recorded October 9, 2020 Panel moderated by Cathy Leamy, with panelists Liz Bolduc Sux, B. Erin Cole, Tatiana Gill, and Lilly Taing.  

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A Hundred Thousand Knots and more – Spotlight on Kukka-Maria Kiuru

Aug. 30, 2020 by Kukka Maria Kiuru

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Alopecia has always been in my life. It runs in the family. I first got signs of it when I was 5 years old. At the time my parents didn’t know about the symptoms that some of my relatives had already had. Everything that happened because of my alopecia at that time left me with feelings of confusion and uncertanty. Years later, after losing all my body hair, I had to confront my own attitude towards this disease and figure out something to help me get through the bitterness and fear. Alopecia has very visual symptoms. Losing my hair, eyebrows… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, drawing Tags: Alopecia, Kukka-Maria Kiuru

The Graphic Medicine Confab

Aug. 14, 2020 by Comic Nurse

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The Graphic Medicine Confab is a roundtable conversation focusing on the challenges and techniques of making graphic medicine: comics about everything and anything to do with health, medicine, illness and our bodies. Meetings are organized by Kriota Willberg, Joel Christian Gill, Georgia Webber, and Benjamin Schwartz. Each Confab has a theme and a facilitator (see below for details.) The GMC began the summer of 2020 via Zoom. Artists, educators, librarians, health care professionals, patients, and others contributed compelling  questions and comments, creating dynamic conversations about a wide range of topics. Graphic Medicine Confab #1 with Kriota Willberg (6-16-20) Part 1… Read More

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Spotlight on José Alaniz’s The Phantom Zone and Other Stories: Comics and Prose

Jul. 11, 2020 by Ian Williams

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The Phantom Zone and Other Stories: Comics and Prose collects the title story, which first appeared as a comic strip in the Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas, Austin in the 1990s, along with more recent material. Alaniz, a comics scholar and professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature (adjunct) at the University of Washington, Seattle, has previously published Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond (University Press of Mississippi, 2014) and with Scott T. Smith co-edited Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019), among… Read More

Categories: Brighton 2019, comics, Comics and Medicine, Seattle 2017 Tags: blindness, deafness, disability, eye injury, Jose Alaniz, Menderes disease

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