Sweetha Saji
Biographic Data
| ID | 1029814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sweetha Saji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sweetha |
| FAMILY NAME | Saji |
| SIGNATURE | SAJI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1935-5891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Interplay between grief and silliness”
Tyler Feder’s Dancing at the Pity Party is her debut graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House in 2020. Her poignant narrative which delineates the sociocultural notions on death and personal expressions of grief won several accolades including the Sydney Taylor Young Adult Book Award and the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction nomination. Feder’s critically acclaimed narratives such as Bodies Are Cool and Are You Mad at Me? and other humourous…
Capturing alternate realities
The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic narratives analysed in this essay are reflections of the authors’ experiences of dealing with friends and family members who suffer from mental conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophre…
Drawing the mind
Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives on mental illness find expression through the unique semiotic nature of comics, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex psychic-scapes and embodiment of the artist's experiences. In so doing, these verbal-visual techniques provide vividness and easily digested expression, translating …
Reflections on the Visceral
Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder
Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists biomedical prescriptivism and espouses the political potential of sharing subjective experiences of living with bipolar disorder through comics. Her comic strip “Rachel Lives Here Now” appears weekly in Seven Days, an alternative newspaper …
(Un)bridgeable Chasms
Graphic Medicine and the Limits of Biostatistics
Increasing reliance on statistics for treatment and clinical risk assessment not only leads to the reductive interpretation of disease but also obscures ambiguities, distrust, and profound emotions that are important parts of a patient's lived experience of illness and that should be regarded as clinically and ethically relevant. Enabling critique of the limitations of statistics and illustrating their hegemonic impact on the patient's experience…
Rhetorics of the Visual
Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewing the definition and scope of graphic medicine aims t…
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Rhetorics of the Visual
Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewing the definition and scope of graphic medicine aims t…
Graphic Medicine and the Limits of Biostatistics
Increasing reliance on statistics for treatment and clinical risk assessment not only leads to the reductive interpretation of disease but also obscures ambiguities, distrust, and profound emotions that are important parts of a patient's lived experience of illness and that should be regarded as clinically and ethically relevant. Enabling critique of the limitations of statistics and illustrating their hegemonic impact on the patient's experience…
(Un)bridgeable Chasms
Reflections on the Visceral
Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder
Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists biomedical prescriptivism and espouses the political potential of sharing subjective experiences of living with bipolar disorder through comics. Her comic strip “Rachel Lives Here Now” appears weekly in Seven Days, an alternative newspaper …
Capturing alternate realities
The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic narratives analysed in this essay are reflections of the authors’ experiences of dealing with friends and family members who suffer from mental conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophre…
Drawing the mind
Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives on mental illness find expression through the unique semiotic nature of comics, which facilitates the encapsulation of complex psychic-scapes and embodiment of the artist's experiences. In so doing, these verbal-visual techniques provide vividness and easily digested expression, translating …
“Interplay between grief and silliness”
Tyler Feder’s Dancing at the Pity Party is her debut graphic memoir published by Penguin Random House in 2020. Her poignant narrative which delineates the sociocultural notions on death and personal expressions of grief won several accolades including the Sydney Taylor Young Adult Book Award and the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction nomination. Feder’s critically acclaimed narratives such as Bodies Are Cool and Are You Mad at Me? and other humourous…
Psychology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Psychotherapist (4 works) · Comics (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)