Los amantes del cómic en general y del cómic en las ciencias de la salud en particular estamos de nuevo de enhorabuena.
Tal es la importancia que se le está concediendo a este género en el ámbito médico-sanitario, que del 5 al 7 de julio la Brighton and Sussex Medical School acogerá el IV Congreso Internacional sobre Cómics y Medicina: Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society.
En esta ocasión, los diversos aspectos teóricos y prácticos que se prevén abordar son:
- Ethics under cover (i.e. how ethical issues are tackled under the surface of graphic works).
- Illness narrative and the comic form.
- Balancing humour and respect in comics about illness and disability.
- Comics as resistance to the biomedical mainstream.
- Comics as a way of seeing and representing illness and the role of healthcare professionals.
- Comics in practitioner research and as a method of reflection.
- Comics in cross-disciplinary education as both subject and tool.
- Comics in literature, medicine and the bioethics classroom.
- Comics within different healthcare systems.
- European and international perspectives on graphic medicine and the scope for cross cultural analysis.
Asimismo, habrá talleres interactivos sobre los siguientes temas:
- Creating comics.
- Understanding, reviewing and critiquing comics.
- Getting comics published.
- Teaching and learning with comics.
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Blanca Mayor Serrano