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Home / DRAWING MEDICINE: Week Two

DRAWING MEDICINE: Week Two

Monday January 27, 2014, 3-5pm

McGaw Pavilion, 2nd floor, Daniel Hale Williams Auditorium

(250 East Huron Street)

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Recap of class one:

The course takeaway/goal is to RECLAIM USE OF YOUR VISUAL LANGUAGE AS A WAY INTO MEDICINE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING A CAREGIVER AND A PATIENT. 

 

In class we watched, Sayantani DasGupta’s STORIES ARE GOOD MEDICINE.

The takeaway points from this lecture were:

  • STORIES ARE GOOD MEDICINE – goal is to be able to read a patient’s story as well as her radiograph.
  • STORIES ARE RELATIONAL
  • THERE IS “STORY TRUTH” – SOMETIMES DIFFERS FROM FACTUAL TRUTH
  • STORIES ARE NOT FIXED.

 

In preparation for our first class, you watched Lynda Barry’s video: WHAT IS AN IMAGE. Here are the salient points from that video:

 

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FOR NEXT CLASS: 

1. READ ONE ARTICLE FROM THIS ISSUE OF ATRIUM AND BE PREPARED TO  PRESENT IT TO THE CLASS.

Here is a table of contents for the issue:

  1. The View from the Spectrum: The Challenges of Picturing Autism in Comic Form
  2. Aggression Management Manga: An Interview with Rinko Endo
  3. Monsters and the Ghosts of PubMed by Alice Dreger
  4. Picture This: Illustrating the Future of HIPPA Documents
  5. Saving Grace: Teaching about Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Using Comic Form
  6. Down There by Sarah Rodrigues
  7. Impressions of Female Genital Cutting by Carrie Channel
  8. Graphic Language by Ian Williams
  9. Delineating Disease by Lucy Lyons
  10. Addressing Loss and Resilience: Informing Patient Care Through Comic Narratives
  11. The Pharmaceuticalized “Good Mother”
  12. A Sustaining Graphic

2. JAM COMIC – using the form I gave you, create a new jam comic on a medical/health theme with friends/a friend.

 

comic by geriatrician Muna Al-Jawad

 

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