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Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT–that is, until her body got in the way. Shrink is a work of graphic medicine that depicts the emotional and physical realities of inhabiting a large body in a world that…
As we confront the challenges of emerging diseases, environmental health threats, and gaps in health equity, medical professionals need versatile communication tools that help people make informed decisions and engage them in constructive conversations about the health of their communities. This book illuminates the power of comics to meet that need. Graphic Public Health demonstrates…
Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine–through memoirs by caregivers and families–offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency. Dementia, a neurodegenerative condition, often reduces individuals to their impairments, overlooking their personhood. This book challenges this, critiquing the influence of mind-body dualism, biomedicine on personhood,…
In The Cancer Plot, Reginald Wiebe and Dorothy Woodman examine the striking presence of cancer in Marvel comics. Engaging comics studies, medical humanities, and graphic medicine, they explore this disease in four case studies: Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Thor, and Deadpool. Cancer, the authors argue, troubles the binaries of good and evil because it is the…
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