Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography by A. David Lewis A challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential, aesthetic/literary, or theoretical, customarily, and only occasionally calculable. This is neither a flaw nor weakness of Graphic Medicine, but it is also adaptable. If practitioners and clinicians utilizing elements of Graphic Medicine so choose, they can opt to perform further studies on its measurable effects. This is not a matter… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/5/18)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Articles & More… Kickstarter: A book that will get us talking: Diversity and Inclusion Webcomic: A comic about the problems with the -omics, illustrated by Matteo Farinella Webcomic: Mommy & Me Yoga Poses Scholarly: Annals Graphic Medicine – Back to Work Scholarly: Ten simple rules for drawing scientific comics Scholarly: Smiles, Apologies, and Drawing Trauma-Informed Care… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/17/17 & 11/24/17)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado… Note: This Week is actually two weeks. 11/23 is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, so this will cover from 11/10’s post until 11/22. Next week will catch anything from the later half of this one. Have a good holiday for those celebrating! Comics and Medicine: The Way We Work The Center… Read More