‘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…
Note: This week’s post comprises the period of 11/10/18 to 11/20/18 due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The remaining part of the 11/23 week will appear in the 11/30 posting.
Special Dedication…
Matthew’s Pick of the Week…
I’ve not done this so far, but this week’s pick is a Call for Papers I am particularly excited about: Invisible Made Visible: Comics and Mental Illness, to be edited by Leah Misemer & Jessica Gross! What makes me so excited about this volume is that they are purposely seeking not only scholarly essays, but original comics and course designs as well. This is a route that I wish ALL graphic medicine scholarly collections will take in the future: walk-the-walk so to speak, but also sharing pedagogical ideas freely so that all may benefit.
You can find the full call at the link above, but I will repost their suggested topics for exploration below:
- The affordances the visual vocabulary of comics provides for representing internal mental states
- How comics reinforce, question, or break stigmas surrounding mental illness
- How comics have been, or can be, catalysts for discussions, online or in person, about mental illness
- The history of mental illness in various genres (e.g. superheroes, memoir)
- How depictions of mental illness have led to formal innovation
- How both patients and caregivers can use comics as part of treatment in both medical and non-medical contexts
- How comics trouble the boundaries between those who care for those who are mentally ill, and those who are mentally ill themselves
- How other forms of identity (e.g. race, gender, religion, language) impact experience and treatment of mental illness
- How comics negotiate the intersections of visibility and mental illness in different cultures
- How comics question and reflect culturally and historically constructed definitions of mental illness
- How comics about mental illness can be taught or drawn in undergraduate or graduate classes, or as part of medical training
Please contact Leah or Jessica with any questions and do please consider submitting an abstract – due January 28th, 2019!
Articles & More…
Call for Expertise (MCPHS Spring 2019): Graphic Medicine student consult via @adlewis
CFP (Reminder): Special issue of RHM on Mental Health
CFP (Reminder): “Batman in Popular Culture Conference”
CFP: Depictions of Isolation from Young Artists
Kickstarter: THE GOOD FIGHT: A Peaceful Stand Against Bigotry and Racism
Event: Can You See What I See? at Rua Red, Tallaght
Event: “Say AAHH!” #1: Graphic Medicine Roundtable & Comics Artists Party
Event: Humanities in Medicine Symposium 2018
Event: Introduction to Graphic Medicine: A Mindful Medicine Event
Book: Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives
Book: Life Support: Invitation to Prayer coming in June 2019
Comic: The Lady Doctor coming in February 2019
Comic: Diabetes Type 1 Comics: Issue 2 via @parthaskar
Webcomic: The Words I Did Not Say
Webcomic: A Delicious History of “Meatless Meat” via @TheNib
Webcomic: I’m Not Just One Person Anymore
Webcomic: ‘Biopsy Part Five,’ Today’s Comic by Rebecca Kirby
Webcomic: 1981 via @garethcowlin
Webcomic (Librarianship): NMLM Feature: The Joy of Medical Librarianship
Scholarly: Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Blog: Options for the final disposition of a dead body
Blog: Graphic Medicine at Reimagine NYC 2018
Blog: A Love for Cartoons: Me and Graphic Medicine via @priyanga_singh
Blog: Artists’ Books and Multisensory Experience: Reflections on Teaching a Visual Medical Humanities
Book Review: The Death of Captain Marvel via @GraficaMedicina
Book Review: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? via @GraficaMedicina
Book Review: Drawn to Berlin
Book Review (Illustrated): Illustrated Book Review | Belonging by Nora Krug
Book Review: Follow Me In via @RobertDWells
Book Review: About Betty’s Boob via @adlewis
Book Review: Kid Gloves: Nine Months Of Careful Chaos
Interview: Cancer throws you in the deep end
Interview: Why Storytelling Matters in Medicine: An Interview with Dr. Suzanne Koven
Interview: The Illustrated Interview: Grace Farris
Interview: Temple student’s answer to the stress of med school? Cartoons
Podcast: Episode 152 – Dana Walrath: Through the Looking Glass via @JanaPanarites
Video: Anita Ravi at Exponential Medicine 2018 [Should link directly to Anita, but if not, go to time code 4:49:20]
GET A GRIP!: When You’re in Pain, how do you Separate Good Advice & Bad Advice? via @kriota
We’re all mad here: UW Health Sciences Common Book kickoff event unites community
Medical comics draw on health & illness
The Syrian crisis – through artists’ eyes
Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New Research
The arts are a shadow health service – here’s why
How Storytelling Can Help Young Doctors Become More Resilient
Love of comics opens new avenues for teaching STEM communications
“Letter to my Breath” at Fun Palaces, Bristol via @lifeofbreath
Tweets…
Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…
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