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New Graphic Medicine Books Hit the Stand
This collection of innovative texts describing patients’ and practitioners’ encounters with health care through comics is located on the first floor of the HSHSL, to the right of the leisure collection. Our Graphic Medicine Collection is growing! We recently added … Continue reading
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Graphic Medicine: New Exhibit at HSHSL
Dec. 9, 2024 – Jan. 18, 2025 The HSHSL is proud to host the National Library of Medicine (NLM) exhibit, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn.” The exhibit’s authors describe “graphic medicine” as “the use of comics to tell personal stories … Continue reading
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Check Out the Graphic Medicine Collection
Graphic medicine describes the intersection of comics and health care. The combination can lead to a deeper understanding of the experience of conditions such as pain, motherhood, epilepsy, & anxiety to name but a few. Browse the HSHSL’s graphic medicine … Continue reading
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Sample the Graphic Medicine Collection
Graphic medicine describes the intersection of comics and health care. The combination can lead to a deeper understanding of the experience of conditions such as pain, motherhood, epilepsy, and anxiety to name but a few. Browse the HSHSL’s graphic medicine … Continue reading
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New Graphic Medicine Collection
Ian Williams, a graphic artist, physician, and humanist, coined the term “graphic medicine” to describe “the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare.” Writing in BMJ (2010;340:c863), Michael J Green and Kimberly R Meyers argue that “graphic stories … Continue reading