Graphic Medicine
Cancer
Books in the Health Sciences Library
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person by A cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humorous graphic memoir.
Cancer Vixen by With 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.
Mom's Cancer by An 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 The 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.
