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PCOM GA Library Alert (Update)

Dear PCOM GA campus members: The PCOM GA Library information desk will remain closed until Friday, August 19 due to the COVID-19 cases. The information desk will be open on Saturday, August 20. The Library space is still open without any in-person services. If you need to return any library materials or equipment, the due date will be extended until the Library resumes staffing. Please use the online chat service and email to research librarians… [Read more...]

GA Library Alert

Dear PCOM GA campus members: The PCOM GA Library information desk will  not be staffed from Monday, August 15 to Wednesday, August 17 due to COVID-19 cases.  The Library space is still open without any in-person services. If you need to return any library materials or equipment, the due date will be extended until the Library resumes staffing. Please use the… [Read more...]

Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare

Comics has always had a critical engagement with socio-political and cultural issues and hence evolved into a medium with a subversive power to challenge the status quo. Staying true to the criticality of the medium, graphic medicine (where comics intersects with the discourse of healthcare) critiques the exploitative and unethical practices in the field of healthcare, thereby creating a critical… [Read more...]

Hot Topic in Research: Feminine famishment: Graphic medicine and anorexia nervosa

Socio-cultural rigidities regarding the shape and size of a woman’s body have not only created an urgency to refashion themselves according to a range of set standards but also generated an infiltrating sense of body dissatisfaction and poor self-esteem leading to eating disorders. Interestingly, through an adept utilisation of the formal strengths of the medium of comics, many graphic medical… [Read more...]