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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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Hand written tabulation of information of TB patients.

Revealing Data: Collecting Data about TB, ca. 1900

January 31, 2018 Circulating Now

By Susan L. Speaker ~ In the summer of 1901, Elizabeth Blauvelt, a Johns Hopkins medical student, prepared a summary of data (“Report on Data

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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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An architectural drawing of a very large, sprawling, high windowed, four story building with two steeples.

The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital

June 30, 2015 Circulating Now

By James Labosier, Ginny Roth, and John Rees A new archival collection, the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital Archives, 1853–2003 is now available at the

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