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