Graphic Medicine

Graphic medicine refers to comics concerning medicine and healthcare, and their use in medical education and patient care. This genre of comics make often intimidating information accessible, while building empathy and a greater understanding of different lived experiences.

Updated July 16, 2024
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Saskatchewan Information & Library Services Consortium Regina Public Library
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Go with the flow
Williams, Lily
Paper Book
Abby: the activistSasha: the new girlBrit: the smart oneChristine: the goofballWhen these four best friends notice that the boys have brand-new football uniforms and equipment while the girls bathrooms are still shamefully bereft of feminine hygiene products, they decide to take matters into their...
Proxy Mom
Adriansen, Sophie.
Paper Book
The first graphic novel that explores postpartum depression. A story of reconstruction and resilience. Marietta and Clovis, madly in love, are expecting a baby. But childbirth marks the end of the fairy tale. Zoe's birth didn't go as Marietta imagined, and the maternal instinct is slow to manifest...
Sensory Life on the Spectrum : An Autistic Comics Anthology
Ollerton, Rebecca.
Ebook
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences--from diagnosis journeys to finding community--from autistic contributors. From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their...
Allergic
Lloyd, Megan Wagner
Paper Book
A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet! At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie...
Impossible people a completely average recovery story
Wertz, Julia
Paper Book
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Hungry Ghost
Ying, Victoria.
Paper Book
Sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, suspects that she has been binging and purging for years. But Valerie's life, and priorities, are upended when her father dies abruptly. At home, she abandons her ED patterns as she tries to...
Mom's cancer
Fies, Brian.
Ebook
A cartoonist chronicles how he and his grown siblings dealt with their mother's cancer diagnosis and treatment in this Eisner Award-winning graphic novel. Mom's Cancer is a graphic novel about one family's struggle with metastatic lung cancer. Honest, unflinching, and...
A Fox in My Brain
Lubie, Lou.
Paper Book
A Fox In My Brain is a graphic memoir about a...

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