Call for Papers and Posters on Comics and Medicine

Call for Papers and Posters on Comics and Medicine: Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels

Conference on Comics and Medicine: Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels

Papers and posters are invited on issues related to, but not restricted to, the following themes:

• What motivates authors to produce graphic narratives with medical content?
• How does the audience for this growing genre differ from traditional markets for so-called ‘pathographies’?
• What additional insights can graphic narratives offer into healthcare compared with literature and film?
• What international trends are discernible in the production and reception of medical graphic narratives?
• What are the ethical implications of using graphic narratives to disseminate public health messages?
• What are the strengths of graphic fiction in bioethics conversations? In conversations between patients and health care workers?
• How have patients (and patient communities) turned to graphic fiction to communicate health care and advocacy information to other patients, their family and surrounding community, and their physicians?
• How do patient-created graphic fictions/narratives differ from physician-or health-care industry-created graphic narratives? What does this imply about the role played by graphic fiction in institutionalized medicine?
• How can graphic stories be used in medical education and patient education?
• What are the roles of graphic stories in enhancing communication within the medical profession, in scholarship and in the medical humanities?

Contributions are sought from humanities scholars, comics scholars, healthcare professionals, comics enthusiasts, writers and cartoonists.

300 word proposals for a 20 minute paper or a poster should be submitted by Friday 29th January 2010 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. Abstracts will be peer reviewed blind and papers for presentation will be selected by Friday 26th of February 2010.

A report of the conference will be submitted to relevant journals and websites. All the papers and posters accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for development in a themed volume (subject to funding).

For more information: http://graphicmedicine.org/

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