Graphic Medicine Manifesto

Combining scholarly essays with visual narratives and a conclusion in comics form, establishes graphic medicine as a new area of scholarship. Demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives offer patients, family members, and medical caregivers new ways to negotiate the challenges of the medical experience. Discusses comics as visual rhetoric.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

MK Czerwiec is a nurse and comics artist. She is the artist-in-residence at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

Zusammenfassung

Combining scholarly essays with visual narratives and a conclusion in comics form, establishes graphic medicine as a new area of scholarship. Demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives offer patients, family members, and medical caregivers new ways to negotiate the challenges of the medical experience. Discusses comics as visual rhetoric.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: MK Czerwiec, MK (Adjunct Professor Czerwiec, Michael J. Green, Michael J. (Professor of Humanities Green, Green Michael J., Kimberly R. Myers, Kimberly R. (Associate Professor of Humanities Myers, Myers Kimberly R., Scott T. Smith, Scott T. (Associate Professor of English Smith, Susan Merrill Squier, Susan Merrill (Julia Gregg Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies Squier, Squier Susan Merrill, Ian Williams, Ian (Independent scholar Williams
• Verlag: University Presses
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780271066493
• ISBN: 978-0-271-06649-3
• Abmessung: 203 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Gewicht: 499 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Serie: Graphic Medicine
• Themen: Belletristik > Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Education & Training, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, MEDICAL / Essays, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences