Description
Book SynopsisCombining scholarly essays with visual narratives and a conclusion in comics form, establishes graphic medicine as a new area of scholarship. Demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives offer patients, family members, and medical caregivers new ways to negotiate the challenges of the medical experience. Discusses comics as visual rhetoric.
Trade Review“Absorbing and accessible. . . . The authors explain themselves in both words and pictures (five sketch themselves as standard-issue professionals, and one as a small, cheerful chicken). They outline what drew them to graphic medicine and append excerpts from favorite works.”
—Abigail Zuger, M.D. New York Times
“Graphic Medicine Manifesto draws its strength from the way the individual voices coalesce to confirm not only the ability of comics to unravel medical culture and the pedagogical possibilities of graphic medicine but the transformative and community-building competence of graphic pathographies. In short, Graphic Medicine Manifesto is an essential read for scholars in comics studies, cultural studies, medical humanities, bicultural studies and visual studies, and to any reader who values the intersection of literature and medicine.”
—Sathyaraj Venkatesan Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
“Something remarkable and game changing is being sparked by the alliance between comics and medicine. It’s becoming clear that these graphic narratives can deepen understanding, not only of facts but of feelings, between patients, families, and professionals. A spoonful of comics really does help the medicine go down.”
—Paul Gravett,author of Comics Art and editor of 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die
“Published in 2015, this book was one of the very first on graphic medicine. It continues to provide fundamental information for getting started with graphic medicine and building an appreciation for comic scholarship in medicine.”
—Janice Phillips Doody's Review Service
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
MK Czerwiec and Ian Williams
1 Who Gets to Speak? The Making of Comics Scholarship
Scott T. Smith
Excerpt from Swallow Me Whole, by Nate Powell
2 The Uses of Graphic Medicine for Engaged Scholarship
Susan Merrill Squier
“Bad Blastocyst,” by Ruben Bolling
Excerpts from I Am Not These Feet, by Kaisa Leka
Excerpts from “Where Babies Come From: A Miracle Explained,” by Ann Starr
3 Graphic Storytelling and Medical Narrative: The Use of Graphic Novels in Medical Education
Michael J. Green
Excerpt from The Infinite Wait, by Julia Wertz
4 Graphic Pathography in the Classroom and the Clinic: A Case Study
Kimberly R. Myers
Vita Perseverat (Life Goes On), by Ashley L. Pistorio
5 Comics and the Iconography of Illness
Ian Williams
Excerpt from The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon
6 The Crayon Revolution
MK Czerwiec
Excerpt from Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person, by Miriam Engelberg
Excerpt from Old Person Whisperer, by Muna Al-Jawad
Conclusion
MK Czerwiec and Ian Williams
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Comics Bibliography
Author Biographies and Acknowledgments
Credits
