Atkins Library hosting the exhibit ‘Graphic Medicine’

“Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn” is a traveling exhibit from the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. This display, which explores a field of literacy in which comics tell personal stories of illness and health, will be exhibited on the library’s first floor through Sunday, Nov. 24.

According to cartoon artist and curator Ellen Forney, “The language of words and pictures gives approachability and emotional impact to these personal stories and even to the clinical data they sometimes include. Graphic medicine is so effective for understanding clinical and emotional aspects of illness.”

A panel presentation, “Graphic Novels for Escape, Learning and Memory” is scheduled for 3:30 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Visualization Lab, located on the library’s second floor.

Panelists Bobby Campbell, associate professor of graphic design; Christine Davis, professor of communication studies and health humanities minor coordinator; Phillip Kaffen, assistant professor of Japanese; Alan Rauch, professor of English; and Jan Warren-Findlow, associate professor of public health sciences and director of the Master of Public Health program; will discuss the use of graphic novels and other narrative methods in the context of personal experiences of disease and health.