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Graphic Medicine

Information on the use of the comics medium to explore issues in healthcare.

Disability

Graphic medicine presents disability as a social construct that arises from an environment and society that fails to accommodate an impairment. It is uniquely positioned to represent the socio-somatic model of disability: how disability feels and what an impairment means socially for the disabled person and their family members.

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Graphic medicine presents the socio-somatic model of disability: how disability feels and what an impairment means socially for the disabled person and their family members