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Graphic Medicine

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Graphic Medicine Books

  • Cover Art Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's through the looking glass by Dana Walrath
    Call Number: RC523 .W35 2016
    ISBN: 9780271074689
    Publication Date: 2016-04-15
  • Cover Art The Bad Doctor by Ian Williams
    Call Number: PN6737.W447 B33 2015
    ISBN: 9780271067544
    Publication Date: 2015-03-15
  • Cover Art COVID Chronicles by Kendra Boileau (Editor)
    ISBN: 9780271090146
    Publication Date: 2021-07-13
  • Cover Art Graphic Medicine Manifesto by M. K. Czerwiec; Ian Williams; Susan Merrill Squier; Michael J. Green; Kimberly R. Myers; Scott T. Smith
    Call Number: NC1763.M4 C96 2015
    ISBN: 9780271066493
    Publication Date: 2015-05-15
  • Cover Art Marbles: mania, depression, Michelangelo, & Me: a graphic memoir by Ellen Forney
    Call Number: PN6727.F678 M37 2012
    ISBN: 9781592407323
    Publication Date: 2012-11-06
  • Cover Art Medicine: a graphic history by Jean-Noël Fabiani; Philippe Bercovici (Illustrator)
    ISBN: 9781910593790
    Publication Date: 2020-05-12
  • Cover Art Pain Is Really Strange by Steve Haines; Sophie Standing (Artist)
    ISBN: 9781848192645
    Publication Date: 2015-06-21
  • Cover Art Taking Turns by M. K. Czerwiec
    ISBN: 9780271078182
    Publication Date: 2017-03-15
  • Cover Art Waves by Ingrid Chabbert; Carole Maurel (Illustrator)
    ISBN: 9781684153466
    Publication Date: 2019-05-14

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.

Noe, M. & Levin, L. (2020). Mapping the use of comics in health education: A scoping review of the graphic medicine literature. Graphic Medicine. 

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

Ronan LK, Czerwiec MK. A Novel Graphic Medicine Curriculum for Resident Physicians: Boosting Empathy and Communication through Comics. J Med Humanit. 2020 Dec;41(4):573-578.

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 Education, 16(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)

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