Graphic Medicine: A Path for Understanding, Education, and Advocacy
A visual form of storytelling comes into its own.
Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor
A compelling philosophical exploration argues that reasonableness, not mere rationality, is essential for human relationships and society.
AIDS in the Comics: The Graphic Memoir Taking Turns with MK Czerwiec
A nurse’s graphic memoir reveals the human stories, suffering, and compassion behind the AIDS crisis.
Illness Unfolds Before Your Eyes
A video game removes player control to simulate how the lived experience of illness disrupts time and space
Michael Pollan Trips over Consciousness
Inside a Cave, Coming to Grips with the Mystery of Consciousness
Hands
During the clinic visit, the patient map unfurls, their hands leaving little clues.
Summer 2026 Biblioscopy
New books highlighting illness poetry, the toll on compassion extracted during medical training, and the emotional burden of illness on family members
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
Children’s literature offers a lens into public perception and experience of childhood infectious diseases as we face a resurgence of these same illnesses today.
Three Paintings by Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch transformed personal family tragedies into haunting paintings that reveal illness, grief, isolation, and enduring emotional suffering.
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Love, Duty and Psychoanalysis in Third Reich Berlin