Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Library Mun-Keat Looi Stephen Lowther Jenn Phillips-Bacher 2 February 2011
Dec 04, 2014
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Library
Mun-Keat Looi
Stephen Lowther
Jenn Phillips-Bacher
2 February 2011
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
What you’ll find in the collections
Educational comics
•For teens
•For adults
Graphic novels
•Graphic pathologies
•Cancer
•Mental health
•Chronic illness
•Manga
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Safe sex for teens
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Superheroes, the USA and special interests fight the baddies
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Sexual responsibility for adults
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Cancer narratives
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Mental health
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Chronic illness
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Doctors, ethics and manga
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
How to find in the collections
•Medicine & Society collection: browse shelves at HHLC
•Genre search in Library catalogue:
•‘graphic novels’
•‘comic books’
Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library
Additional resources
Graphic Medicine: http://graphicmedicine.org/
Ian Williams’s review site
Polite Dissent: http://politedissent.com/fav_med.php
Reviews and essays about medicine in pop culture