The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing,
activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being …

This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a
range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the discussion draws …

Over the past decade, autobiographical comics that focus on experiences of illness and
disability—a genre also known as “graphic pathography”—have not only received …

When people speak or write about their experience of depression, a small number of
metaphors often dominate their accounts. This article uses two graphic memoirs to show …

Recent literature suggests that a growing number of comics are being published on health-
related topics, including aspects of mental health and social care (Williams 2012; Czerwiec …

This essay considers the ways in which graphic caregiving memoirs complicate the
idealizing tendencies of ethics of care philosophy. The medium's “capacious” layering of …

Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such
as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces …

Comics have often been treated as a juvenile and sub-literary art form; however, taking cues
from the new-found cultural acceptance of comics, particularly with the publication of Art …

Many medical schools now encourage the reading of classic and contemporary literature to
gain insight into the human condition. The need to locate literature in medicine, suggests …

Context Parkinson disease (PD) can be physically, emotionally, and financially burdensome.
Understanding its impact from the patient's perspective is an important way to sensitize …