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This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/15/18)

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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’m pointing you to a particular comic from The Nib: Refugee to Detainee: How the U.S. is Deporting Those Seeking a Safe Haven. This is stretching the traditional definition of medicine or health to include human rights, but it is precisely the human rights element that… Read More

CFP: Medical Humanities in the Middle East.

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The 1st International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar invites proposals for oral presentations and posters on the topics of narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, art and medicine, expressive arts therapies, medical ethics and narrative ethics, graphic medicine, literature and medicine, history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in medicine occurring in the Middle East and North Africa region. Keynote speakers: Arthur W. Frank and Mohammed Ghaly. Selected papers will be invited to an edited volume. Contact: Professor Alan S. Weber, alw2010@qatar-med.cornell.edu URL: http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/mhm

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/16/18)

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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… Continuing the trend of highlighting the National Library of Medicine’s work with Graphic Medicine, this week I want to highlight the latest GM Podcast, in which MK discusses the field with Dr. Patricia Brennan, director of the NLM. I encourage you to head right over and listen… Read More

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/9/18)

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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… I’ve had a strange week, interrupted by a 2nd nor’easter in as many weeks and a disjointed work schedule. Because of that, I must apologize and admit there just isn’t time for a long post for my pick of the week. That said, I will use this… 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

Association for Medical Humanities Annual Conference 2015

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Call for presentation proposals: Deadline 28th February 2015 Extended to Fri March 20th   A   S   S   O   C   I   A   T   I   O   N       F   O   R       M   E   D   I   C   A   L       H   U   M   A   N   I   T   I   E   S CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MEDICINE AND THE ARTS In collaboration with and Creating Space Canada THE ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES… Read More

New Medical Humanities Journal invites articles on Graphic Medicine

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Research and Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME) is the scientific journal of the Medical Humanities Group of the Medical Education Unit, University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, University of Delhi. The journal represents all those who want to engage in professional and public discussion on the important role of medical education research, and the medical humanities, in medical education. Thus, educators, students, patients, policy makers, and other stake holders are invited to contribute.     Aims and scope RHiME is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal. To ensure national and international relevance, the journal has Advisory Board members from all… Read More

New Podcast: Studio Time in the Literature & Medicine Classroom

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Use the Quicktime player above to view images along with the audio. If you don’t have Quicktime, you can listen to the audio-only version below. This panel from Toronto, “Studio Time in the Literature and Medicine Classroom,” features Susan Squier, Tess Jones, and Scott Smith. They write of their panel, “We will present our experiences introducing ‘studio time’–a time dedicated to creating our own comics (text and images)–into classes that are customarily occupied with discussing comics, either as examples of literature or as modes of communication in health care settings. After brief paper, we answer questions and encourage discussion and comments among… Read More

Graphic Medicine: Comics as Medical Narrative

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By Ian Williams Medical Humanities, January 25, 2012 full text requires log in Abstract: Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to the Medical Humanities movement, many medical schools now encourage the reading of classic literature to gain insight into the human condition. Until recently, the medium of comics (the term is used in the plural to refer to both the physical objects and the attendant philosophy and practice surrounding them) has received little… Read More