CMAJ will soon begin publishing graphic medicine articles in its Humanities section.
Graphic medicine is a form of visual storytelling that explores narratives of the body, health …

Moving on from the use of comics in medical institutions, which predominately take the form
of simple, top-down didactic infographics on posters and in patient brochures, graphic …

Abstract In Graphic Medicine, comics artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and
comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images …

This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic
medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members …

Comics have often been treated as a juvenile and sub-literary art form; however, taking cues
from the new-found cultural acceptance of comics, particularly with the publication of Art …

Founded by Ian Williams, a British physician and comics artist, graphic medicine is an
emerging area of an interdisciplinary field which explores comics' distinctive engagement …

This chapter describes the nascent field of graphic medicine. It provides a brief history of,
and rationale for, the use of comics in the practice of health care. The chapter will describe …

Many medical schools now encourage the reading of classic and contemporary literature to
gain insight into the human condition. The need to locate literature in medicine, suggests …

Comics has always had a critical engagement with socio-political and cultural issues and
hence evolved into a medium with a subversive power to challenge the status quo. Staying …

Usually, you wait for an 'age'to end before defining it, but what's the fun in that? Especially
when, as I believe, we're currently living through the golden age of graphic medicine …