Graphic medicine: use of comics in medical education and patient care

Graphic medicine: use of comics in medical education and patient care

Use of graphic stories for patient care and education, highlighting the development of the form of publication out of comics. Graphic pathographies, or illness narratives in graphic form, are described with examples depicting cancer, and showing how juxtaposing text and images in a way not possible...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ (Online) 2010-03, Vol.340 (7746), p.574-577
Hauptverfasser: Green, Michael J, Myers, Kimberly R
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Comic books
Diseases
Graphics
Illustration
Literature
Medical education
Mothers
Narratives
Patient care
Typographic fonts
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Zusammenfassung:Use of graphic stories for patient care and education, highlighting the development of the form of publication out of comics. Graphic pathographies, or illness narratives in graphic form, are described with examples depicting cancer, and showing how juxtaposing text and images in a way not possible with other literature can give medically-related information in new ways. [(BNI unique abstract)] 38 references
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833