This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/8/19)

‘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 you to read Food Used to Be a Lot More Dangerous – a brilliant comic on by Whit Taylor and Maki Naro about the history of the FDA, posted on The Nib. Public health comics are something I am hoping we see more-and-more of, as this is an area where education can be effective and, honestly, we don’t talk about systematic health concerns in the United States enough. Anywhere near enough. I can’t decide if it makes me feel better or worse to know that the attitudes against proper oversight have been around a long time or not…

Articles & More…

Kickstarter: The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby Vol. 2

Event: Drawing from Experience

Event: Graphic Medicine and Contested Geographies of Trauma – – MA in Geography Speaker Series via @nomadic_ebru

Event: Narrative Medicine Mondays – Theme Graphic Medicine (march 18)

Event: Performing and Picturing Patienthood: Exploring Graphic Illness Narratives

Webcomic: Bilateral Salpingectomy by Rosalarian [OJST is a NSFW site]

Webcomic: The Nib Interview: Alison Bechdel via @TheNib

Webcomic: 100 Year Old Wisdom via @TheNib

Webcomic: Medicine, Illustrated via @metrokitty

Webcomic (Scholarly): Annals Graphic Medicine – Dr. Mom: Aging

Scholarly: Ethics in Life Sciences and Healthcare: Exploring Bioethics through Manga