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Brighton Conference 2019. Call for Papers.

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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 (10/12/18)

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Hello all! I am stepping in while Matthew is away. He will be back next week.For those of you who don’t know me, you can find out more in my introduction. As I’m new to this, let me know if I’ve missed something. —Alice Jaggers ‘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…   Alice’s Pick of the Week…  … Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (10/5/18)

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Hello all! I am stepping in while Matthew is away. For those of you who don’t know me, you can find out more in my introduction. As I’m new to this, let me know if I’ve missed something. —Alice Jaggers ‘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… Alice’s Pick of the Week… Exciting news that Sharon Rosenzweig’s “Judgment Call”… Read More

Introduction: Alice Jaggers

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Hello everyone! Let me introduce myself, Alice Jaggers. I am a medical librarian. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram at @AJaggers324 or on Facebook. I love to talk to people about graphic medicine. Most of the basic stuff I would put here, I’ve already said on my blog. You can check that out here. I’ve also written about the meaning and the importance of graphic medicine. If you want to learn more about how I came to graphic medicine, read about it here. I have also been working on a graphic medicine database for over a year. I’m… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/22/18 & 6/29/18)

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‘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… Gotta have a @GraphicMedicine selfie for #alaac18! Heard about this comics and medicine thing? Give @ComicNurse or I a shout! pic.twitter.com/yCEF74rWPv — Matthew Noe (@NoetheMatt) June 24, 2018 No specific link to send you to this week, rather, I want to reflect a little on attending the… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/30/18)

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‘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’s pick was actually posted last Friday, just a few hours shy of when posted last week’s blog, but it is too important and powerful to not count as this week’s pick: LINES DRAWN: Parents and Teachers Who’ve Had Enough. The first part of what looks to… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/2/18)

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‘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 is yet another no-contest for pick of the week, since on Thursday, March 1st, we saw Dr. Patti Brennan, head of the National Library of Medicine, moderate A Conversation about Graphic Medicine with Ellen Forney, MK Czerwiec, and Dr. Michael Green. This talk was coordinated to go… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/9/18)

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‘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 everyone to consider backing CORPUS: A Comic Anthology of Bodily Ailments on Kickstarter. CORPUS is an comics anthology that focuses on mental illness, physical illness, and healthcare experiences. You can see a number of previews of included comics on the Kickstarter link above…. Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/2/18)

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‘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 there can be no question of what to highlight, as on February 1st the AMA Journal of Ethics issue dedicated to Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics went live! You may recall seeing me share and post the call-for-papers for this issue over-and-over last Summer… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (1/26/18)

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‘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 don’t have a pick in the traditional sense. Rather, I want to pause and dedicate our work in the medical humanities this week to Dr. Arnold P. Gold, who passed away on January 23rd. He was 92. The foundation named for him posted this tribute… Read More