{"id":15446,"date":"2017-05-19T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:21:12","slug":"comics-and-medicine-a-free-librarian-brown-bag-session","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/comics-and-medicine-a-free-librarian-brown-bag-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics and Medicine:  A FREE Librarian Brown-Bag Session!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the more exciting recent trends in communicating about health care and medicine is that of \u201cgraphic medicine\u201d.\u00a0 As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicmedicine.org\/why-graphic-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Ian Williams<\/a>, who coined the phrase, writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has long been known that comics are \u201cnot just for kids\u201d\u2026 comics and graphic novels [can] be used as a resource for health professionals, playing a valuable role in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reflecting or changing cultural perceptions of medicine<\/li>\n<li>Relating the subjective patient\/carer\/provider experience<\/li>\n<li>Enabling discussion of difficult subjects<\/li>\n<li>Helping other sufferers or carers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want to learn more?\u00a0 Come join us at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/2953612\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comics and Medicine 2017 Librarian Brown-Bag Session<\/a>!\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s free, and you\u2019ll get to hear from MK Czerwiec, a nurse who \u201cuses comics to help her contemplate the complexities of illness and caregiving\u201d, and the NNLM\u2019s own Matthew Noe, the New England Region\u2019s graphic medicine specialist (for background on the topic in general, listen to his webinar, \u201cIntroduction to Graphic Medicine\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_1qompM8BQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 It should be a fun time, and you\u2019ll leave with ideas for kickstarting, or further developing, Graphic Medicine at your own library!<\/p>\n<p>The session is from 12:30-2 pm at The Seattle Public Library\u2019s downtown location (1000 Fourth Avenue in Seattle), on Saturday June 17<sup>th<\/sup>, in room 2 on the fourth floor.\u00a0 And, if you find yourself REALLY intrigued by all this, consider attending the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicmedicine.org\/2017-seattle-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comics and Medicine conference<\/a>.\u00a0 There are free morning sessions before the Brown-Bag, on both \u201cComics and Health Literacy\u201d and \u201cComics as Access\u201d, and many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicmedicine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Full-Conference-Program-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more talks<\/a> available for paid registrants.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact Ann Glusker at <a href=\"mailto:glusker@uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">glusker@uw.edu<\/a> with questions\u2014we hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of the more exciting recent trends in communicating about health care and medicine is that of \u201cgraphic medicine\u201d.\u00a0 As Dr. Ian Williams, who coined the phrase, writes: \u201cIt has long been known that comics are \u201cnot just for kids\u201d\u2026 comics and graphic novels [can] be used as a resource for health professionals, playing&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/comics-and-medicine-a-free-librarian-brown-bag-session\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,4,7,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15446","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-health-literacy","category-regional-news","category-public-health-2","category-public-libraries","category-training-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}