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{"id":13599,"date":"2018-01-18T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=13599"},"modified":"2018-08-03T09:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T13:05:38","slug":"graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/01\/18\/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erika Mills ~<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In works of graphic medicine\u2014an emerging field of medical literature\u2014patients and their loved ones, caregivers, and health professionals tell stories about health and illness through the medium of comics. Artists and authors use a combination of words and images to present emotionally-impactful narratives and digestible health information. As an approach to understanding illness and health care for both patients and professionals, graphic medicine fosters effective treatment, health literacy, and healing. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/index.html\">Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!<\/a>,<\/em> a new traveling exhibition, special display, and online exhibition, explores this increasingly-popular genre and showcases <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/12\/06\/new-ideas-at-the-nlm-graphic-medicine\/\">the National Library of Medicine\u2019s growing collection of graphic medicine works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Seattle cartoonist and educator <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/\">Ellen Forney<\/a>, author of the <em>New York Times <\/em>bestselling graphic novel <em>Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me<\/em>,<em> Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!<\/em> provides an introduction to the genre, discussing who creates graphic medicine, how it conveys meaning, and its impact on readers and creators. The exhibition offers a definition of graphic medicine and a primer on reading comics; explores patient and caregiver memoirs, and stories about navigating the health care system; and explains the presentation of understandable health data through infographics. The special display, available in the NLM History of Medicine Division Reading Room, includes a selection of graphic medicine works from the NLM collection, as well as original artwork from graphic medicine creators. Here are some highlights from the exhibition:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13603\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13603\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/01\/18\/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn\/gm-launch-image-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C1754&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1754\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"GM launch image 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-3.jpg?fit=205%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-3.jpg?fit=701%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13603 size-full\" style=\"border:2px solid #000000;\" title=\"A girl becomes a superhero on the playground\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-3.jpg?resize=840%2C1228&ssl=1\" alt=\"Illustrated anthropomorphized bunnies on a playground\" width=\"840\" height=\"1228\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <em>El Deafo<\/em>, Cece Bell, 2014<br \/>El Deafo <em>by Cece Bell. Text and Illustrations copyright \u00a9 2014 Cece Bell. Used with the permission of Express Permissions on behalf of Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. All rights reserved.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13602\" style=\"width: 1849px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/01\/18\/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn\/gm-launch-image-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-2.jpg?fit=1849%2C1600&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1849,1600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"GM launch image 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-2.jpg?fit=300%2C260&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-2.jpg?fit=840%2C727&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13602 size-full\" style=\"border:2px solid #000000;\" title=\"The artist remembers prominent black women who've died by suicide recently\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-2.jpg?resize=840%2C727&ssl=1\" alt=\"Drawing of an African American woman looking at a laptop while three other African American women appear below \" width=\"840\" height=\"727\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From \u201cThe Myth of the Strong Black Woman,\u201d <em>The Nib<\/em>,\u00a0 Whitney Taylor, March 8, 2015 <br \/><em>Courtesy Whitney Taylor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13601\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/01\/18\/graphic-medicine-ill-conceived-and-well-drawn\/gm-launch-image-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C1705&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1705\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"GM launch image 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-1.jpg?fit=211%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-1.jpg?fit=721%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-13601 size-full\" style=\"border:2px solid #000000;\" title=\"The author worries about her bipolar disorder diagnosis\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-image-1.jpg?resize=840%2C1194&ssl=1\" alt=\"A drawing of a White woman\u2019s face\" width=\"840\" height=\"1194\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <em>Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me<\/em>, Ellen Forney, 2012 <br \/><em>Courtesy Ellen Forney<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! <\/em>will be on display in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/visit\/reading-room.html\">NLM History of Medicine Division Reading Room<\/a> from January 30, 2018 to January 3, 2019. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/\">online adaptation<\/a> allows visitors to explore the books and artwork contained in the special display, as well as additional graphic medicine works from the NLM collection accompanied by links to more health information from <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/\">MedlinePlus<\/a>, the NLM\u2019s consumer health website. <em>Graphic Medicine <\/em>online features a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/resources.html\">educational resources<\/a>, including a K-12 lesson plan and a university module that foster visual literacy and challenge students to try their hands at creating graphic medicine. The traveling banner adaptation will be traveling to 50 sites across the country over the next four years. Please visit the\u00a0<a id=\"anch_184\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/about\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine-bookinfo.html\">Traveling Exhibition Services website<\/a> and\u00a0<a id=\"anch_185\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/about\/exhibition\/find-an-exhibition.html\">find this exhibition near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leading image: Original Artwork for<\/em> Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me<em>, by Ellen Forney, 2012. Courtesy Ellen Forney.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/erika2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"732\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/07\/05\/an-exhibition-program-welcome-and-george-washingtons-teeth\/erika2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/erika2.jpg?fit=2400%2C3000&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2400,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D800","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1372435305","copyright":"","focal_length":"85","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"Erika Mills\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/erika2.jpg?fit=240%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/erika2.jpg?fit=819%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-732\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/erika2.jpg?resize=81%2C101\" alt=\"Erika Mills\" width=\"81\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><em>Erika Mills is outreach coordinator for the Exhibition Program in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Erika Mills ~ In works of graphic medicine\u2014an emerging field of medical literature\u2014patients and their loved ones, caregivers, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57991628,"featured_media":13600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well- Drawn! - A new exhibition from the National Library of Medicine","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12763,2029,43646346,103],"tags":[177,1480675,1342,678875800,557,263102,6044794],"class_list":["post-13599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibitions","category-graphic-medicine","category-news","tag-art","tag-book-illustration","tag-education","tag-graphic-medicine","tag-literature","tag-patient","tag-traveling-exhibitions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gm-launch-feature.jpg?fit=900%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xcDk-3xl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57991628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13599"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14604,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13599\/revisions\/14604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |