Graphic Medicine
Information on the use of the comics medium to explore issues in healthcare.
Cancer
Books in the Health Sciences Library
- Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person by Miriam EngelbergA cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir.
- Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella MarchettoWith a taboo-breaking sense of humor, Marchetto tells the story of her eleven-month, ultimately triumphant bout with breast cancer--from diagnosis to cure, and every challenging step in between.
- Down to the Bone by Catherine Pioli; J. T. Mahany (Translator)A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author's life and experiences as a leukemia patient
- Mom's Cancer by Brian FiesAn honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families.
Also available as ebook. - Stitches by David SmallThe prize-winning children's author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir.
Webcomics
- MelahomosA transgender patient with facial cancer has to navigate through the realities of microaggressions, transphobia in medicine, and a social and medical framework that blames patients for their disease, common with melanomas.
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