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Can a comic a day keep the doctor away? GP Ian Williams thinks so
In these uncertain economic times there seems to be a growing nostalgia for the more simple things in life. Home baking and dressmaking is on the rise and many families are anticipating a less...
View ArticleConference on Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels: Call for Papers
Although the first comic book was invented in 1837 the long-format graphic narrative has only become a distinct and unique body of literary work relatively recently. Thanks in part to the growing...
View Article‘Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness’: Conference, Chicago, 9-11...
This second international interdisciplinary conference* aims explore the past, present, and possible future of comics in the context of the healthcare experience. Programs in medical humanities have...
View ArticleThe Drama of Medicine-All the Ward’s a Stage: 8th Annual AMH Conference,...
Plans for the 8th annual conference of the Association for Medical Humanities are now well underway, with an exciting line up of papers, workshops and plenary speakers. Celebrated poet and doctor...
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Ian Williams: Graphic Medicine: Visualising the Stigma of Illness: Ian Williams
The contribution of the medium of comics (referred to in the plural to denote both the physical printed object and the attendant philosophy) to medical discourse has begun, over the past few of years,...
View ArticleAyesha Ahmad: CFP: Comics and Medicine: Navigating the Margins, 22-24 July...
The third international interdisciplinary conference* on comics and medicine will continue to explore the intersection of sequential visual arts and medicine. This year we will highlight perspectives...
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The Reading Room
The Bad Doctor A graphic novel by Ian Williams Reviewed by Dr Ian Fussell The Bad Doctor is the debut graphic novel by Ian Williams, himself a pretty good doctor, I reckon, by the insight and...
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The Reading Room: A review of Matilda Tristram’s ‘Probably Nothing’
Probably Nothing: A diary of not-your-average nine months Matilda Tristram Reviewed by Nicola Streeten Aged 31 and four months pregnant, Matilda Tristram was presented with an agonising dilemma...
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