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Medical Mentions Book Reviews XIX – Comic Strip Edition #3

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Medical Mentions are a group of graphic works. The graphic works reviewed here are books whose primary topics are not medical, and yet they cover a medical topic with some depth at some point in the work. The rest of the work might be fictional or nonfictional, while the medical portion is often technical and five pages or more. The reviewer will usually neither recommend nor discourage reading the work, except when the rest of the work is deemed outstanding or terrible, respectively. Typically, six graphic works will be part of the review with one paragraph for each. Prior Medical Mentions… Read More

Pregnancy and Birth – A Graphic Guide

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by Dr. Laboni Das In Pregnancy and Birth, writer and midwife Laura Godfrey-Isaacs and illustrator Lilly Williams collaborate to produce what may be one of the most comprehensive, inclusive, and visually engaging guides to pregnancy and childbirth published in recent years. The book situates itself within the dynamic and socially engaged field of graphic medicine—“the intersection of medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare” that examines embodied experiences of illness, recovery, and caregiving through visual storytelling (Graphic Medicine Manifesto, 10th Anniversary Edition Czerweic et al.; Penn State University Press, 2025, pg. 1). Pregnancy and Birth offers a collective narrative… Read More