‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights news about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary. So without further ado… Personal Note… This edition of TWIGM is strange in that it covers the period of May 4th to May 15th. There was a death in the family that has upended routine here, so I apologize for the strangeness. Keep in mind that this means the next edition will also be strange as it plays catch-up to include the rest of this week (5/16 and 5/17). Matthew’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (5/3/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles 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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… No special pick from me this week, but an announcement. For the foreseeable future, TWIGM will not include an attempt to capture all of the relevant tweets from the week(s). The honest answer to why is that I simply do not have the time to keep up with the output… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/19 – 4/26/19)
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles 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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week’s picks include big news about the Brighton Conference: Brighton keynote speaker announcement: Dr. Meg-John Barker! The conference is really shaping up to be an amazing event and I’m looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible! If you have any questions about this year’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I want to draw your attention to a couple of comics published in The Nib that you might not normally consider when thinking about graphic medicine. The first, titled It’s Time to Rethink How Recycling is Done is a depressing look by cartoonist Katie Wheeler at… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/8/19)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… My pick this week isn’t strictly speaking graphic medicine, but rather, a highlighting of a similar discipline, with a great deal of overlap: Graphic Justice. You may already be familiar with this idea – they have had a website, a listserv, and a Twitter page for some time… Read More
Brighton Conference 2019. Call for Papers.
July 11-13, 2019 Hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School, at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, UK The Graphic Medicine conference is back in Brighton. We first hosted this conference in 2013 and we are looking forward to welcoming friends old and new to participate in 2019. Our conference title is deliberately tricky. We hope this draws you in, not shuts you out. This year marks the formation of the Graphic Medicine collective, and this is the first conference under this banner. To us this represents an opportunity to query or question what graphic medicine is about. The time for… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (12/7/18)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I’m cheating again this week because of yet ANOTHER conference full of graphic medicine. This looks to be the last one for a while (I think)… Pick 1: The comic What Doctors Know About CPR by Nathan Gray has been making the rounds all week, to the… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (11/30/18)
‘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… Note: There are items dating back to 11/21 here due to the Holiday in the US last week Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I’m cheating again and having two picks. In my defense though, it is because I had already picked out a comic and then realized (thanks to Ian’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine 11/10/18 – 11/23/18
‘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… Note: This week’s post comprises the period of 11/10/18 to 11/20/18 due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The remaining part of the 11/23 week will appear in the 11/30 posting. Special Dedication… RIP Stan Lee Matthew’s Pick of the Week… I’ve not done this so far, but this week’s… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/14/18 – 9/21/18)
‘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… Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I am going back a couple of weeks to highlight a comic from The Nib that deserves far more attention: I Went to Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic by Arwen Donahue. I think the comic speaks for itself, so I won’t go on too much except to… Read More
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