Graphic medicine manifesto / MK Czerwiec [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967- author, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in medicine.

Medicine--Comic books, strips, etc.

Medicine.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color)

Edition:

Tenth-anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park : Penn State University Press, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"A decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bold new framework for understanding the intersection of comics and healthcare. It was a call to action—an invitation to rethink the ways we engage with medicine, illness, disability, and caregiving through the power of visual storytelling. Now, ten years later, this landmark volume returns in a special anniversary edition that expands and reimagines its mission for a new era. With a new critical preface, this tenth-anniversary edition reflects on Graphic Medicine Manifesto’s legacy and its impact on healthcare, scholarship, and comics. It reaffirms the power of comics to challenge disciplines, amplify marginalized voices, and transform teaching in a range of health fields. Organized into six sections, the introduction explores the manifesto’s origins and ongoing relevance, its role as a radical tool in comics, the power of storytelling in health education, the expanding influence of graphic medicine on disability studies and the humanities, the importance of community and collaboration in breaking disciplinary silos, and the future of the field. "-- From De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Who gets to speak? the making of comics scholarship / Scott T. Smith

Excerpt from swallow me whole / Nate Powell

The uses of graphic medicine for engaged scholarship / Susan Merrill Squier

“Bad blastocyst” / Ruben Bolling

Excerpts from i am not these feet / Kaisa Leka

Excerpts from “where babies come from: a miracle explained” / Ann Starr

Graphic storytelling and medical narrative: the use of comics in medical education / Michael J. Green

Excerpt from the infinite wait / Julia Wertz

Graphic pathography in the classroom and the clinic: a case study / Kimberly R. Myers

Vita perseverat (life goes on) / Ashley L. Pistorio

Comics and the iconography of illness / Ian Williams

Excerpt from the nao of brown / Glyn Dillon

The crayon revolution / MK Czerwiec.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed February 25, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), 1967- Graphic medicine manifesto.

ISBN:

9780271100869

0271100869

9780271100852

0271100850

OCLC:

1568963525

Publisher Number:

CIPO000285426

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license