This week on the graphic medicine podcast, Leah Eisenberg talks about her work as a lawyer and bioethicist using comics to help make biobanking more comprehensible, and consent to bio banking more meaningful. In the “What Are You Reading?!” segment, Leah updates us on her comics & medicine work and recommends a few books she’s enjoyed recently.
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Leah recommends the March series about John Lewis,
Neurocomic,
and the work of Tyler Page,
and S/Z, about communicating ideas with storytelling.
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great talk – informed consent with kids (and adults) is something I do all day with patients and I need to use graphics more
she also got me back to thinking about my own origin story in graphic medicine, including some work making mathematical models of neural networks ‘come alive’ so that science was infused with humanity, for the sake of exposing the beauty and making it more understandable… it’s a talk I’d like to offer at an upcoming conference, in 2017 if not Dundee…