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Top of the heap: Sherine Hamdy by Maria Cecilia Dedios
This week Sherine Hamdy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, takes “Top of the heap” readers into the field of “graphic medicine.” Sherine Hamdy I’ve only recently come to learn...
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Conference: Comics & Medicine, From Private Lives to Public Health, June...
Comics & Medicine: From Private Lives to Public Health June 26th to 28th, 2014 The Johns Hopkins Medical Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Keynote Speakers: Ellen Forney, Arthur W. Frank, James...
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Comics and the Medical Encounter by Ryan Montoya
Editor’s Note: In March of 2013 the Annals of Internal Medicine added the Graphic Medicine series as part of their medical humanities features. As they describe, “Annals Graphic Medicine brings...
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This month’s Web Roundup is focused loosely around the theme of the visual. How do we use photography and other mediums to tell stories, and what stories do those technologies tell about us? The New...
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Book review: Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in...
Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noémi Tousignant, editors Intellect Ltd./University of Chicago Press, 2016,...
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Cancer Culture avant la lettre by Vincent Bruyère
Figure 1. Two views of Clara Jacobi (Netherlands, 1689). U.S. National Library of Medicinehttps://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101392944-img In the class I teach on illness narratives,...
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Susan Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor by Rebecca Rahimi
Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor Susan Merrill Squier Duke University Press, 2017. 280 pages Susan Merrill Squier’s Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawing as Metaphor is positioned at the...
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