Graphic medicine manifesto / [graphic novel] MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith.

Graphic medicine manifesto / [graphic novel] MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith.

Publication Date
: 
2015

Publication Information
: 
University Park, Pa. : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Physical Description
: 
195 p. : ill. (some col.)

Subject Term
: 
Comic books, strips, etc.
 
Medical care.
 
Caricatures and cartoons.

Genre
: 
Graphic non-fiction.

Series
: 
GRAPHIC MEDICINE

Additional Contributors
: 
Green, Michael J. (Michael Jay), 1961-
 
Myers, Kimberly R. (Kimberly Rena), 1962-
 
Smith, Scott Thompson.
 
Squier, Susan Merrill.
 
Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967-
 
Williams, Ian (Physician)

Bibliography Note
: 
Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780271066493


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall NumberStatus
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH)Adult NFic Graphic NovelAdult Non-Fiction Graphic Novel610 G76Checked out