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Graphic stories, or adult themed comics, are a popular new cultural trend. Michael J Green and Kimberly R Myers argue that they are also a valuable tool for medicine

This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book’s first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship—and the notion of the literary text—for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field.

Use of graphic stories for patient care and education, highlighting the development of the form of publication out of comics. Graphic pathographies, or illness narratives in graphic form, are described with examples depicting cancer, and showing how juxtaposing text and images in a way not possible with other literature can give medically-related information in new ways. [(BNI unique abstract)] 38 references

In the mid-1930s, William Butler Yeats wrote two plays that feature a poet figure who confronts his muse and is subsequently beheaded. In The King of the Great Clock Tower and A Full Moon in March , Yeats symbolically processes a complex nexus of concerns in his life at the time: long-standing writer's block, his immersion in Hindu thought, and the sexual impotence that contributed to his decision to undergo the often misunderstood genito-urinary Steinach operation in April of 1934. Yeats was predisposed to trust the medical theories behind the Steinach operation because they corresponded with ideas about sexuality and mental vitality he found in Hinduism.

The effects of two treatments, irrigation and fertilization, were examined on specific gravity (SG)-related wood properties of loblolly pine trees (Pinus taeda L.) grown in Scotland County, North Carolina. The effects on the core as a whole, on the juvenile core, on the mature core, and from year to year were all analyzed. The results indicate that fertilization significantly lowered latewood SG, overall SG, and percent latewood and did so consistently throughout the period of study. Irrigation significantly lowered earlywood SG during the phase of juvenile wood production but significantly raised latewood SG during the period of mature wood production. Significant interaction between fertilization and irrigation indicated that irrigation helped overall SG and percent latewood of fertilized trees to increase to the level of untreated trees. Therefore, this study provides evidence that although fertilization significantly affects several SG-related properties, water availability is beneficial to the fertilization process; over time, an adequate water supply may help fertilized trees to maintain SG levels similar to those of unfertilized trees.

Unlike my colleagues, I wasn’t a comics junkie growing up. I took myself—my thoughts and my passions—far too seriously and craved what I perceived to be the more nuanced characters of “proper” fiction and biography. I was a ravenous reader as a child, and comics were usually reserved for dessert: I read them as light fare to polish off what sustained me. But as an adult, I began to look at comics with a more critical eye—Maus was the first to captivate me—and realized what my younger, elitist self, for all her good intentions, had missed.¹

This inaugural volume in the Graphic Medicine series establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, and it includes arresting visual work from a wide range of graphic medicine practitioners. The book's first section, featuring essays by Scott Smith and Susan Squier, argues that as a new area of scholarship, research on graphic medicine has the potential to challenge the conventional boundaries of academic disciplines, raise questions about their foundations, and reinvigorate literary scholarship-and the notion of the literary text-for a broader audience. The second section, incorporating essays by Michael Green and Kimberly Myers, demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives can engage members of the health professions with literary and visual representations and symbolic practices that offer patients, family members, physicians, and other caregivers new ways to experience and work with the complex challenges of the medical experience. The final section, by Ian Williams and MK Czerwiec, focuses on the practice of creating graphic narratives, iconography, drawing as a social practice, and the nature of comics as visual rhetoric. A conclusion (in comics form) testifies to the diverse and growing graphic medicine community. Two valuable bibliographies guide readers to comics and scholarly works relevant to the field.