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Chapter 14 - Articulating the Experiential in Graphic Medicine

from Part II - Developments: Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2024

By
Kimberly R. Myers
Edited by
Anna M. Elsner  and
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Anna M. Elsner
Affiliation:
Universität St Gallen, Switzerland
Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Affiliation:
Universität Wien, Austria
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Summary

Graphic Medicine enriches and expands the field of Medicine and Literature by providing an additional, visual, modality for understanding stories of illness and well-being. Combining words and pictures, the hybrid medium of comics engages both left and right hemispheres of the brain, which can lead to more immediate, intuitive, and complete comprehension for the reader/viewer than text alone. This essay briefly addresses the origins and commitments of Graphic Medicine and illuminates, through Visual Thinking Strategies, why and how comics are particularly effective in the domains of clinical medicine and medical ethics – that is, for healthcare providers and medical learners, and for patients as well.

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graphic medicinecomicsVTSclinical ethicsVisual Thinking StrategiesProfessional Identity Formationempathygraphic pathographyillness narrative
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Literature and Medicine , pp. 238 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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