by Felix Cheong You can dodge taxes (as many successful people have done). But the one fact you can’t avoid is death. Yet among Asians, we often wave away the word as if saying it aloud might bring on the death throes. No talk of wills, end-of-life care or funeral planning. Heck, we can’t even pen our autobiographies. At my memoir-writing workshop last year, one participant said his wife had tried to stop him from signing up because she believed writing your life story meant you were ready to give up the ghost! Which makes All Death Matters an unusual… Read More
The Cancer Plot: Terminal Immortality in Marvel’s Moral Universe
by Matt Peters Mixing text with sequential art has been a proven formula for making medical storytelling more accessible, relatable, and engaging to a lot of readers. The combination of written and visual expression has helped comics and graphic novels capture the emotional substance of a host of health experiences, including chronic pain, diabetes, depression, and neurodiversity. The writers and artists tackling those topics have often been outsiders to the superhero genre, working with smaller presses to publish one-shot graphic memoirs and other non-fiction. Their works are rooted in the real world instead of the sci-fi and fantasy universes… Read More
Medical Humanities online conference with free registration.
Please see the online conference on Medical Humanities below. Registration is free. There are sessions devoted to graphic and narrative medicine. Registration is open until April 8, 2022: https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east/schedule
Make a contribution to improving healthcare communication in the Middle East. Call for papers
The first Healthcare Communications in the Middle East conference is taking place at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, in Doha, Qatar, on March 27-28, 2020. Qualitative and quantitative research papers, case studies, country reports, full sessions, thought papers, and theoretical discussions are requested on the following topics: Breaking bad news to patients Language issues or cultural differences in the workplace Talking about sensitive health and moral issues with patients Getting the right information from the patient (history taking) Talking to specific groups: elderly, children, people with disabilities, etc. Electronic medical record problems and electronic communications Referrals to other facilities or… Read More
UPDATE: Medical Humanities in the Middle East Posters Accepted until October 8, 2018
UPDATE: Medical Humanities in the Middle East Posters Accepted until October 8, 2018 The 1st International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar is accepting poster presentations and registration to attend until October 8, 2018. Visit the link below for full information. Contact: Professor Alan S. Weber, alw2010@qatar-med.cornell.edu URL: http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/mhm
This Week in Graphic Medicine (9/7/18)
‘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… Welcome back! I hope everyone has enjoyed the last hurrahs of Summer and things are settling back into semi-normalcy again – especially for those fellow academics out there. As you know, I took a break over the past month (more on why here), but now This Week… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (7/6/18 & 7/13/18)
Note: I feel I must apologize for the erratic schedule of these posts of late. I’ve had a fair bit of travel, but it is mostly because of stress in my personal life with moving. As I’ve drawn and shared before, stress tends to aggravate my chronic pain – I attribute it to stressing an overtaxed mind too far – and it makes doing even the most routine things more time-consuming. I will hopefully be more settled soon (likely after the conference). As always, if I’ve missed something (highly likely), let me know. And if you ever want to do… Read More
This Week in Graphic Medicine (6/22/18 & 6/29/18)
‘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… 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 (6/15/18)
‘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’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.
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