The Trauma of Medical Training in Two Webcomics

A Call for Multimodal Citation

Bibliographic Data

ID2289137
AuthorsSherine Hamdy (0000-0002-0387-2336, Department of Anthropology University of California Irvine, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume37
Issue3
Pages225-247
Publication date2023-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12746
PMID36964953
OpenAlexW4360946228
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Medical anthropologists have long wrestled with the problematic mind/body opposition that plagues both biomedicine and Euro-American epistemologies. However, medical anthropology as a field has been surprisingly reticent to engage with visual media forms and creative expression, whether film, comics, or animation, even as these media have been shown to augment the bodily and emotional impact on the viewers as compared to solely text-based media. This essay is an attempt to rethink how medical anthropologists can engage more with visual media, taking as an example two comic memoirs created by physicians about their medical training: "Healing Alone" (2019) and "Dailies of a Junior Doc" (2021). These webcomics effectively convey strong emotional and bodily experiences tied to medical education, and are powerful examples of how comics can be leveraged to reexamine assumptions about who can be doctors, how medical training molds them, and what sustains their practice. [medical training, webcomics, visual media, Cartesianism

Animation · Art · Citation · Comics · Literature · Memoir · Opposition (politics · Political science · Visual arts · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Humor Studies and Applications · Psychology

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