found: Work cat.: Murali, Chinmay. Infertility comics and graphic medicine, 2022:prelim. p. (examines women's graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women's life writing, infertility studies, and graphic medicine; scholarly examination of the artists' use of visual-verbal codes of the comics medium in narrating their physical ordeals and affective challenges occasioned by infertility) (OCoLC)1243351313
found: Czerwiec, MK. Graphic medicine manifesto, 2015:p. 104 (medical comics) p. 133 (healthcare comics) p. 4 of cover (graphic medicine narratives; offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience)
found: Graphic Medicine International Collective website, Aug. 10, 2022:What is "graphic medicine"? (the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare; term to denote the role that comics can play in healthcare and, over time, it has been adopted as the accepted term for this area of study and practice)
found: Graphic medicine : ill-conceived & well-drawn!, via National Library of Medicine website, Aug. 10, 2022(Graphic medicine is the use of comics to tell personal stories of illness and health; Graphic medicine communicates the author's personal experience of illness and health, as the art adds subjective, emotional impact. The author's internal, individual viewpoint balances the external, clinical realm of medical symptoms and diagnoses. Additionally, for other patients who share that health issue, it's a way to have company and share information)
found: Annals graphic medicine website, via Annals of internal medicine website, Aug. 10, 2022(Annals Graphic Medicine brings together original graphic narratives, comics, animation/feature, and other creative forms by those who provide or receive health care. They address medically relevant topics--be they poignant, thought-provoking, or just plain entertaining)
found: Graphic medicine website, via Penn State University Press website, Aug. 10, 2022(For healthcare practitioners, patients, family members, and caregivers dealing with illness and disability, graphic narratives enlighten complicated or difficult experiences. They can also communicate the scaled meanings of health, from the molecular to the human and to the planetary, including works addressing climate change, environmental pollution, zoonotic diseases, and other complex problems not commonly conceptualized as "medical." For scholars in literary, cultural, and comics studies, the medium articulates a complex and powerful rethinking of the boundaries of medicine and the expansive meanings of health; graphic pathographies)
found: Venkatesan, S. Rhetorics of the visual : graphic medicine, comics and its affordances, in Rupkatha journal on interdisciplinary studies in humanities, v. 8, no. 3 (2016):p. 221 (graphic medicine; physical and emotional aspects of narrating subjective illness experiences within the medium) p. 222 (graphic illness narratives; comics' distinctive engagement with and performance of illness experience; although these narratives are predominately autobiographical, they also address various socio-cultural issues impinging health care such as medical negligence; the vexed doctor-patient relationship; industrialism of health care; patient identity; role of insurance providers; challenges of caretaking; demands of being a doctor in a commercialized healthcare sector, among others; graphic medical narratives which deliberate on various illness experience ranging from AIDS to Asperger Syndrome narrated by doctors, professional caregivers or patients themselves. Prominent graphic medical narratives include Marisa Acocella Marchetto's autobiographical Cancer Vixen (breast cancer), Brain Fies's memoir Mom's Cancer (lung cancer), MK Czerwiec's Comic Nurse, Sarah Leavitt's Tangles (Alzheimer), Stan Mack's Janet and Me (breast cancer), among others) p. 224 (graphic pathographies)
found: PubMed search, Aug. 10, 2022(5 results for "medical comics"; 285 results for "graphic medicine")
found: Google search, Aug. 10, 2022(32,800 results for "medical comics"; 79,400 results for "graphic medicine"; 1,950 results for "graphic illness narratives"; 759 results for "graphic medical narratives"; 1,310 results for "graphic pathographies"; 1,660 results for "health care comics"; 4,210 results for "healthcare comics"; 4 results for "medical care comics")
