Graphic Medicine
Home / Event

This Week in Graphic Medicine (4/12/19)

by

‘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… As it should! #NEGraphicMedCon was great – thank you for putting it on @nnlmner! #GraphicMedicine pic.twitter.com/pMQQj7hh8A — Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) April 10, 2019 This week, I suggest heading to Twitter and catching up on the great event that was the NNLM NER New England Graphic Medicine Con!… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/29 – 4/5/19)

by

‘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 (3/15 – 3/22/19)

by

‘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, a turn toward the less explicitly medical for my picks – two webcomics that deal with different aspects of sexism. One is actually a couple of years old but recently made the rounds again – and speaks to me a great deal – is by… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/8/19)

by

‘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 encourage you to read Food Used to Be a Lot More Dangerous – a brilliant comic on by Whit Taylor and Maki Naro about the history of the FDA, posted on The Nib. Public health comics are something I am hoping we… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/1/19)

by

‘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 is short: go read through the entire #WomenonPanels feed on Twitter and then make every effort to expand your inclusion of voices in comics work. You’ll find quite a few familiar folks from graphic medicine and I suspect everyone will learn about someone… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/15 – 2/22/19)

by

‘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… First, apologies for a lack of an update last week – as many of you know, I live with chronic pain, generally focused on my left leg. It dictates how much energy I have on any given day and sometimes that means doing less, including digital things…. Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/8/19)

by

‘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

This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/25/19)

by

‘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… Special Note… I will be on hiatus next week (2/1) on account of getting married! Alice Jaggers has agreed to once again step in and take over this post, so make sure you send her your thanks! Matthew’s Pick of the Week… This week I’m using this space to remind you to… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/18/19)

by

‘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, you may have already seen my pick, as it has made the rounds quite a lot – including from me saying that “if you read nothing else” you should read it. I stand by that. The pick is, Healing Alone, by Dr. Isabel Hanson and Safdar… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/11/19)

by

‘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… Important Notes… As you know, I took the holidays as a break from writing these updates. I have attempted to capture posts from throughout the entire past few weeks I was away, but it is very likely that some slipped through. Please send them my way if you know of some! In… Read More