‘Graphic medicine’: How autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness
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Images have acted as crucial diagnostic tools since the late 20th century. Sophisticated technologies, such as X-Rays and MRIs, offer doctors a precise “picture” of illness. But autobiographical comics about illness, known as “graphic medicine”, provide a different picture.
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© The Author(s) 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work
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Visual cultures
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Sandford, S, ‘Graphic medicine’: How autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness, The Conversation, 2021