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Graphic Medicine Independent Study

Sal Marx, M.S. Candidate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University

Advisor: MK Czerwiec, RN, MA

 

Independent Study Goals:

1. Analyze the scope and potential for graphic medicine to communicate health education,

first-person narratives, and/or advocacy.

2. Examine erasure, invisibility, and dehumanization as they intersect with areas of health,

illness, disability, and caregiving, both for long-term patients and healthcare providers.

3. Conduct an oral history interview with 3-5 patients and caregivers.

4. Working with each individual, develop a series of graphics that honor their stories and

reflect their embodied experiences.

5. Apply the theory of narrative humility to the process of co-constructing a visual narrative.

6. Develop practical experience by leading a conversation with the narrative/graphic

medicine community. How might visual graphics create a possibility for mutual

recognition, acknowledgement, acceptance of complexity in the clinical space?

7. Analyze the strengths and limitations of the method of co-creation as a potential for

future health storytelling and advocacy.

8. Connect with other medical illustrators and folks in the graphic medicine community.

I intend to create a series of visual narratives to facilitate patient and caregiver storytelling in

conversation with each other. Building off an oral history project I completed last semester, I aim

to collaborate with other patients to visually communicate their lived experiences. Working with

caregivers in a similar method of oral history and narrative co-construction, I will explore the

process of visual storytelling as a modality to facilitate mutual recognition and visibility in the

clinical space. The final project will be a series of graphics for an art installation, community

event, and/or virtual publication. I will complete this project over the course of Summer B (6/28 –

8/6), developing an intended timeline ahead of the session, and begin conducting my interviews

in early June.

Independent Study Plan: 

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