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Category: Graphic Medicine

Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn! explores the meaning of an emerging sub-genre of medical literature that combines the art of comics and personal illness narrative. The art of comics, which combines the use of words and pictures, gives approachability and emotional impact to these personal stories, and even to the clinical data they sometimes include. As a way of understanding illness and health care, these stories can be essential to effective treatment, healing, and understanding.

Detail of Cover of the graphic memoir Tangles by Sarah Levitt

Graphic Medicine: A Personal Story

April 17, 2018 Circulating Now

By Jill L. Newmark ~ When the idea for an exhibition on graphic medicine was initially introduced in the Exhibition Program at the National Library

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MK Czerwiec's comic avatar stands in a hospital hallway

A Conversation About Graphic Medicine

February 27, 2018 Circulating Now

On March 1, 2018, at 2:00 PM ET in the Lister Hill Auditorium at the National Library of Medicine, NLM Director Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD

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A medical cartoon.

Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!

January 18, 2018 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ In works of graphic medicine—an emerging field of medical literature—patients and their loved ones, caregivers, and health professionals tell stories about

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Montage of artwork featured in Graphic Medicine: Ill Concieved and Well Drawn.

New Ideas at the NLM: Graphic Medicine

December 6, 2017 Circulating Now

By Patricia Tuohy and Erika Mills ~ Graphic medicine—the use of comics or graphic narratives in health care discourse, is an emerging form of medical

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