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New Podcast: Comics & Rhetoric

Dec. 12, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. This panel from Toronto, “Comics and Rhetoric,” features Brandon Strubberg, Tim Elliot, and Matt Kaske Cirigliano. Brandon Strubberg and Tim Elliott are second-year PhD students in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University. Brandon’s Master’s thesis focused on rhetorical representations of diabetic identity, and he has presented on the topic in the past. His current research projects include examining the interactions between identities of disease and technology as well as the usability of medical manuals. Tim… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: biomedical design, Cirigliano, conquering cells, Elliot, graphic storytelling, Ian Williams, medical illustration, Michael Green, narrative medicine, Penn State, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, rhetoric, Rita Charon, Strubberg, Texas Tech University

New Podcast: Studio Time in the Literature & Medicine Classroom

Dec. 5, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. This panel from Toronto, “Studio Time in the Literature and Medicine Classroom,” features Susan Squier, Tess Jones, and Scott Smith. They write of their panel, “We will present our experiences introducing ‘studio time’–a time dedicated to creating our own comics (text and images)–into classes that are customarily occupied with discussing comics, either as examples of literature or as modes of communication in health care settings. After brief paper, we answer questions and encourage discussion and comments among… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: comics, Denver, medical education, medical humanities, medicine, Penn State, Scott Smith, studio time, Susan Squier, Tess Jones, University of Colorado

New Podcast: Graphic Pathographies

Nov. 28, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. This wonderful panel, moderated by Michael Green, presents the creators of three unique and insightful graphic pathographies. Jenny Lin is a visual artist based in Montreal. She has created experimental narrative-based works in the formats of 2-D print, artist books, video and site-specific installation. She recently worked as a medical illustrator at McGill University and she currently teaches at Concordia University in the Print Media program. www.jenny-lin.ca. She writes of her presentation, In my presentation, Skinny… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, papers, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: delirium, genetics, hypertrichosis, ICU psychosis, intensive care, Jenny Lin, Loupette and the Moon, marfan syndrome, medical trauma, Michael Green, Nancy Andrews, psychiatric, psychiatry, psychosis, Sarafin, skinny leg, trauma

New Podcast: Comics & Public Health

Nov. 19, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. Another fantastic panel from Toronto! This one is moderated by Brian Fies and discusses comics in relation to two major public health issues: smoking and hypertension. First up is Alan Blum, an authority on the tobacco industry. In 1977, he founded Doctors Ought to Care (DOC), the first physicians’ organization dedicated to ending the tobacco pandemic. As editor of the Medical Journal of Australia and the New York State Journal of Medicine in the 1980s, he published the first theme… Read More

Categories: Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Alan Blum, blood pressure, drawing, Grassroot Comics, hypertension, patient sketches, smoking cessation, World Comics

New Podcast: Representing Mental Health

Nov. 9, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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 week’s episode, three speakers address mental health and comics. First up is An Nguyen with her paper, My Partner Has Depression: Japanese depictions of illness experiences in the day to day.  An Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is currently finishing her dissertation on Japanese youth street fashion subcultures and has an interest in the global flow of media and things and their interpretation across cultures. Describing… Read More

Categories: Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: An Nguyen, Catherine Duchastel, depression, disability, Hernandez brothers, hypnosis, Love & Rockets, mad, magical realism, manga, mental health, My Partner has Depression, Neil Phillips, stigma, Tenten Hosokawa, warts

New Podcast Wednesday: Comics & AIDS

Oct. 10, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. This panel, moderated by Brian Fies, focuses on comics and AIDS. The first speaker is Ariela Freedman. She is an Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts College, Concordia University, Montreal. She writes on modernism, First World War narrative, and comics. She is the author of Death, Men and Modernism (Routledge: 2003) and many scholarly articles, and is currently working on a project on comics and representations of pain. Her paper, Picturing AIDS, “examines early strategies of picturing AIDS… Read More

Categories: bandes dessinées, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Africa, AIDS, AMFAR, Archie, Ariela Freedman, Blue Pills, Brian Fies, College of DuPage, Concordia University, Fargas, Frederik Peeters, Gabon, Julia diLiberti, Madonna, New York, public service announcements, Toronto, Yonnick Dombi

New Podcast Wednesday: Lydia Gregg and Iggy & The Inhalers

Aug. 29, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. This is the second half of the “Comics in Patient Education” panel from this year’s Graphic Medicine conference in Toronto. If you are able, be sure to check out the images that accompany both the talks as they are quite impressive! First up is Lydia Gregg with her paper, “Interpreting the unfamiliar: comics as a tool for improving care of pediatric patients with retinoblastoma.” The comic and treatment diary Lydia discusses can be viewed on the study… Read More

Categories: Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012, Uncategorized Tags: asthma, Iggy & The Inhalers, Johns Hopkins, Lydia Gregg, medical illustration, patient education, pediatric, retinoblastoma, Toronto, University of Wisconsin

Live Scribe Drawings from Toronto Conference

Aug. 23, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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  Rachel Abrams was our live drawing scribe at the Comics & Medicine conference. She has posted her blog entry, “Doctor, I Laugh When it Hurts,” on the conference. A link to a PDF of her conference drawings is included. She requests that if you use any of the images, please credit/link to her company, Turnstone Consulting.

Categories: Conference Presenters, Toronto 2012 Tags: Comics & Medicine conference, Live scribe, Rachel Abrams, Toronto, Turnstone Consulting

New Podcast Wednesday: Comics in Patient Education, Part One

Aug. 22, 2012 by Comic Nurse

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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. The first panel podcast from the 2012 Toronto Comics & Medicine conference is on the topic of Comics in Patient Education. In part one of this panel, we will hear from Cathy Leamy and Allison Zemek. The full Q&A from the panel will follow next week’s podcast. Cathy Leamy is an independent cartoonist, specializing in autobiography, humor, and education. She also works as a web developer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, building… Read More

Categories: Conference Presenters, Podcast, Podcasts, Toronto 2012 Tags: Allison Zemek, Boston, Cathy Leamy, children, comics, diabetes, diet, erectile disfunction, exercise, Massachusetts General, medical humanities, Metrokitty, nutrition, patient education, pediatric, Stanford

Graphic medicine: female cartoonists tackle life’s dark moments

Aug. 11, 2012 by Ian Williams

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Cinders McLeod of the Globe and Mail has posted this article that grew out of our Toronto conference: Graphic medicine: female cartoonists tackle life’s dark moments “Lynn Johnston’s For Better or For Worse won millions of fans with largely autobiographical stories of family foibles. But for a growing wave of female artists, comic art has the potential to go deeper – speaking to the dark side of domestic life and personal demons. Their subject matter includes anorexia, abuse, depression and death. There’s humour to balance the pain, however. And a clear payoff to the genre, sometimes called ‘graphic medicine’: a healing… Read More

Categories: comic strip, comics, Comics and Medicine, Conference Presenters, Toronto 2012 Tags: Female, Graphic Medicine, Women

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