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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 exper...

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Main Authors: Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967- (Author), Williams, Ian (Physician) (Author), Squier, Susan Merrill (Author), Green, Michael J. (Michael Jay), 1961- (Author), Myers, Kimberly R. (Kimberly Rena), 1962- (Author), Smith, Scott Thompson (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Series:Graphic medicine.
Subjects:
Medicine > Caricatures and cartoons.
Medical care > Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic books, strips, etc.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:195 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780271066493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271066490 (pbk. : alk. paper)