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This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/20/2019)

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Special Note: This week has been brought to you by Alice Jaggers. ‘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… Alice’s Pick of the Week… This week I’m choosing to highlight the newest post of our sister website Medicina Grafica. It is a review in Spanish of the Spanish edition of El Club De Las Canguro El Secreto De Stacey (The Babysitter’s Club Stacey’s Secret), which explores Stacey’s diabetes diagnosis. Articles & More… Event:… Read More

CALL FOR PAPERS – Graphic Medicine – A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

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Guest Editors: Erin La Cour (Free University of Amsterdam) and Anna Poletti (Utrecht University) Submit: Abstracts of 300–500 words in length by September 15, 2019 to biographygraphicmedicine@gmail.com. In recent years, Graphic Medicine has emerged as an important movement in changing attitudes to patient experience within the practice of Western medicine. Combining insights from life writing and comics studies, Graphic Medicine texts and scholarship evidence the efficacy of life narrative in the medium of comics for opening up new channels of communication between medical staff, patients, their loved ones, and the community; providing alternative sites for community building among patients and… Read More

Conference Registration is open

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Conference registration for the 2019 International Graphic Medicine Conference in Brighton is now open. We had a phenomenal response to our call for papers with over 150 proposals from 22 countries. Abstracts were selected by a team of seven people. One of the selectors, Profession Susan Squier commented: “Things have gone to another level with regards to the standard of proposals for this conference. The field is maturing. We had so many excellent proposals, some of which critique the field” The link for registration is HERE.  There are 100 earlybird places available at £100, after which the price goes up… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (2/2/2019)

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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… Special Note… I am stepping in again for Matthew. Congratulations again on the nuptials, Matthew! – Alice Jaggers Alice’s Pick of the Week… This week I am using this space to call out Side Defects. There is a Kickstarter for this book that I am pretty excited about. It is “a book… Read More

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