{"id":1348,"date":"2024-04-09T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:59:45","slug":"postgrad-tips-on-graphic-medicine-the-intersection-between-comics-and-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/2024\/04\/09\/postgrad-tips-on-graphic-medicine-the-intersection-between-comics-and-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgrad tips on graphic medicine: the intersection between comics and healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rachel Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Comics, Graphic Novels & Sequential Arts at Teesside University. Photographer, Lisa Graves.<\/p>\n

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\nBonjour\/Hi! I\u2019m Dr. Rachel M. Thomas, one of two Canadian senior lecturers in comics, graphic novels and sequential arts at Teesside University! I have a PHD in interdisciplinary humanities from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, focusing on medical sociology, medical history and fine arts.<\/p>\n

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\nMy research practice resides in graphic medicine: the intersection between comics and healthcare.<\/p>\n

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\nFirst, graphic medicine is used as a tool for education: either informing general populations of new information on a topic in a\u00a0 way that is recognisable (ie. visuals and text), or offering patient perspectives to better educate healthcare professionals on the experience of living with illness\/disability. Second, it is a platform for validation and acceptance for those facing stigma, and challenges biases that attempt to place bodies into a ‘universal\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

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Part of my doctoral thesis was a full-length graphic novel entitled ‘Shrink: story of a fat girl\u2019 (Penn State Press\/Graphic Mundi 2024) and is an exploration of the social and medical complications of living in a fat body. As its core it provides the most up to date research on the fatness debate through a jargon-free narrative.<\/p>\n

My current research and graphic novel are focused on polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): a disorder that accounts for nearly 80% of all anovulatory (egg not releasing from ovaries) infertility cases worldwide.<\/p>\n

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I believe that good art has a unique ability to access our emotional experiences. However good art and good research combined helps us think critically about our own social environments both inside and outside academia.<\/p>\n

Graphic medicine is just one way to do that.<\/p>\n

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