Comics and graphic medicine as a third space for the health humanities

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
M. Squier Susan
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Graphic Medicine

Articulating Health Humanities in Graphic Narratives by Medical Illustrators

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Lisa Detora
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Medical Illustration ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Graphic Medicine ◽  
Graphic Narratives ◽  
Fertile Ground

Using a theoretical model of “articulation” gleaned from the rhetoric of health and medicine, this chapter situates graphic narratives by medical illustrators against two strains of health humanities: medical education and humanistic inquiry. It might seem that medical illustration, itself a hybrid discipline that bridges art and medical science, would de facto account for both registers of health humanities, yet the reality is more complex. Ultimately, medical illustrators operate within their own rich traditions. Thus, work like Héloise Chochois’ La Fabrique Des Corps: Des Premièrs Prostéhses à l’Humaine Augmenté (2017) or Kriota Willberg’s The Wandering Uterus (Furor Uterensis) and Contemporary Applications of Ancient Medical Wisdom (2016) present a fertile ground for building an understanding of graphic narrative and medicine that extends beyond the experiences of illness that characterize most current understandings of Graphic Medicine.

scholarly journals ‘Eye of the Beholder’: Psychiatric Medical Reasoning, Narrative Humility, and Graphic Medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sathyaraj Venkatesan ◽  
◽  
Arya Suresh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Reasoning ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Mental Patient ◽  
Biomedical Knowledge ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Graphic Medicine ◽  
Research Article ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Voice

Within health humanities, graphic medicine narrates individual stories of patient experience in its interaction with the system of healthcare and its professionals. These autopathographies give a new perspective to the medicalized accounts of diseases and assign subjectivity to the voice which narrates its sufferings. From a medical perspective, clinical reasoning is an important step in the treatment of any disease and a procedure that determines the course of the upcoming treatment. However, in psychiatry, clinical reasoning is a problematic terrain with its lack of external validating criteria and increased reliance on non-somatic symptoms of the disease. In many instances, the authority of biomedical knowledge takes over clinical reasoning and completely denies the individuality of a mental patient and his or her story. This research article attempts to investigate how individual stories and experiences are undermined in psychiatric clinical reasoning discourses and recognizes the importance of empathy and compassion in medical listening through a close reading of select graphic memoirs on bipolar disorder. Citing certain panels from Rachel Lindsay’s Rx (2018) and Ellen Forney’s Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me (2012), this study analyses the pitfalls of clinical reasoning in psychiatry and the widening gap of doctor-patient communication in such facilities. Interweaving the theory of Sayantani Das Gupta’s Narrative humility with instances taken from the above mentioned texts this article discusses the imperative need to restore empathy in medical listening.

scholarly journals Spaces of Care and Graphic Medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sathyaraj Venkatesan ◽  
◽  
Livine Ancy A ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Health Humanities ◽  
Spatial Studies ◽  
Graphic Medicine ◽  
Care Facilities

While there are several studies that focus on care settings in relation to verbal narratives, only a few studies have paid attention to how comics in general, and graphic medicine in particular, engage critical care environments and settings. Drawing strengths from the underground and alternative comics and capitalizing on health humanities, graphic medicine, a recent development in the comics genre, concentrates on the issues related to health, illness, and care. Coined by Ian Williams in 2007, graphic medicine refers to the intersection of comics and concerns of healthcare. Graphic medicine has always engaged informal, formal, and biomedical caregiving settings. Against this backdrop, the present article, drawing on relevant theoretical debates on spatial studies and care, examines Stan Mack’s Janet& Me (2004), Joyce Farmer’s Special Exits (2014), and Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles (2012). In so doing, the article seeks to delineate care facilities (family, hospitals, among others) and their impact on patients.

Delving into Third Space: Supporting Multilingual and Multicultural Students’ Writing

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Zisselsberger ◽  
Lori Czop Assaf ◽  
Sunita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Multicultural Students

Health Humanities Reader

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Vonnegut ◽  
Arthur W. Frank ◽  
David H. Flood ◽  
Rhonda L. Soricelli ◽  
Lisa Keränen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Humanities

Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-423
Author(s):  
John Joseph Norris ◽  
Richard D. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Feminist Inquiry

This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethnographies may not be so. The chapter indicates connections between duoethnography and a number of methodological concepts including the third space, the problematics of representation, feminist inquiry, and critical theory using published examples by several duoethnographers.

scholarly journals Women’s voices on social media: the advent of feminist epidemiology?

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Céline Miani ◽  
Yudit Namer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public ◽  
On Line

Abstract Background Social media have in recent years challenged the way in which research questions are formulated in epidemiology and medicine, and in particular when it comes to women’s health. They have contributed to the emergence of ‘new’ public health topics (e.g. gynaecological and obstetric violence, long-Covid), the unearthing of testimonials of medical injustice, and in some cases, the creation of new evidence and changes in medical practice. Main text From a theoretical and methodological perspective, we observe two powerful mechanisms at play on social media, which can facilitate the implementation of feminist epidemiological research and address so-called anti-feminist bias: social media as a ‘third’ space and the power of groups. Social media posts can be seen as inhabiting a third space, akin to what is said off the record or in-between doors, at the end of a therapy session. Researchers somehow miss the opportunity to use the third spaces that people occupy. Similarly, another existing space that researchers are seldom interested in are peer-groups. Peer-groups are the ideal terrain to generate bottom-up research priorities. To some extent, their on-line versions provide a safe and emancipatory space, accessible, transnational, and inclusive. We would argue that this could bring feminist epidemiology to scale. Conclusion Given the emancipatory power of social media, we propose recommendations and practical implications for leveraging the potential of online-sourced feminist epidemiology at different stages of the research process (from design to dissemination), and for increasing synergies between researchers and the community. We emphasise that attention should be paid to patriarchal sociocultural contexts and power dynamics, the mitigation of risks for political recuperation and stigmatisation, and the co-production of respectful discourse on studied populations.

‘So what do you do?’: Third space professionals navigating a Canadian university context

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Cameron Smith ◽  
Michael Holden ◽  
Eustacia Yu ◽  
Patrick Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
Third Space
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