Graphic novels

摘要

Graphic medicine While comics fans lose themselves in their favorite titles to fend off boredom, an obsessed cadre of health professionals and their clinical allies have discovered the format as a way to repair doctor-patient relationships, teach about health, and lead practitioners toward greater understanding and empathy for the ill. Annual comics and medicine conferences have brought together cartoonists, patients, patient advocates, and medical folks since 2010-Johns Hopkins School of Medicine will host a meeting in 2014. The value of graphic narrative for communicating about health issues is now taught at some half dozen medical schools, including Emory University, Northwestern University, and Pennsylvania State University. The medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine recendy featured the comics memoir Missed It by Michael Green, a doctor who writes about a case study involving mistaken clinical judgment. Librarians should be interested in the "Graphic Medicine" series forthcoming from Penn State University Press that will encompass monographs, essay collections, and original comics.