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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Library

Mun-Keat Looi

Stephen Lowther

Jenn Phillips-Bacher

2 February 2011

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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

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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library

Safe sex for teens

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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library

Superheroes, the USA and special interests fight the baddies

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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library

Cancer narratives

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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library

Chronic illness

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Graphic Medicine: Comics in the Wellcome Library

Doctors, ethics and manga

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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’

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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


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