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Graphic Medicine

Graphic Medicine Books

Articles on Graphic Medicine

AMA Journal of Ethics (2018) - This full issue focuses on Graphic Medicine

Green, M. (2010). Graphic medicine: use of comics in medical education and patient care. BMJ : British Medical Journal., 340(mar03_2), 574–577.

 Green, M. (2013). Teaching with Comics: A Course for Fourth-Year Medical Students. Journal of Medical Humanities, 34(4), 471–476.

Raghavi Ravi Kasthuri, & Sathyaraj Venkatesan. (2015). Picturing Illness: History, Poetics, and Graphic Medicine. Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2, 11–17.

Tsao, P., Yu, C., & Tsao, P. (2016). “There’s no billing code for empathy” - Animated comics remind medical students of empathy: a qualitative study. BMC Medical Education16(1), 204–204.

Tuohy, P., & Eannarino, J. (2018). Reading graphic medicine at the national library of medicine. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 106(3), 387–390.

Williams, I. (2012). Graphic medicine: comics as medical narrative. Medical Humanities, 38(1), 21–27.

Articles on Comics and COVID-19

Callender, Brian et al. “COVID-19, Comics, and the Visual Culture of Contagion.” The Lancet (British edition) 396.10257 (2020): 1061–1063. Web.

Kearns, Ciléin, Dale Fisher, and Yap Seng Chong. “The Infective Nurture of Pandemic Comics.” The Lancet (British edition) 397.10268 (2021): 22–23. Web.

Kearns C, Kearns N. The role of comics in public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Vis Commun Med. 2020 Jul;43(3):139-149.

Kearns C, Kearns N, Braithwaite I, Shortt N, Eathorne A, Semprini A, Beasley R. Using comics and curiosity to drive pandemic research on a national scale. J Vis Commun Med. 2021 Jan;44(1):12-22. 

Saji S, Venkatesan S, Callender B. Comics in the Time of a Pan(dem)ic: COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Metaphors. Perspect Biol Med. 2021;64(1):136-154.

Sample Graphic Medicine Database Searches

For searching in PubMed

(comix OR comic OR comics OR cartoon OR cartoons OR manga OR “visual narrative” OR “visual narratives” OR “sequential art” OR graphic narrative OR graphic narratives OR “graphic medicine” OR “comic book” OR “comic books” OR “graphic novel” OR “graphic novels” OR photonovel OR photonovels) OR "Caricatures as Topic"[Mesh]

For searching in CINAHL

(comix OR comic OR comics OR cartoon OR cartoons OR manga OR “visual narrative” OR “visual narratives” OR “sequential art” OR “sequential narrative” OR “sequential narratives” OR graphic narrative OR graphic narratives OR “graphic medicine” OR “comic book” OR “comic books” OR “graphic novel” OR “graphic novels” OR photonovel OR photonovels)