Ethics Under Cover 2

With Lucy's drawingThe conference Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society took place at the beginning of July. It was a superb meeting, as the C&M meetings always are, in my experience: a stimulating, democratic mix of voices, a nourishing meeting of minds. I presented a nascent paper on the role of anatomical illustration and diagnostic imagery within the visual language of comics, focussing on Judith Vanistendael’s When David Lost His Voice; moderated a panel of excellent presentations on comics in patient education; and took part in a concluding panel discussing the ethics of comics in medicine. And–best of all–met up with friends in the art & medicine community, including Lucy Lyons, whose drawing of me (and other speakers) I’m holding here, while waiting for a train from Brighton to London.

MK Czerwiec is posting the conference presentations, week by week, on the Graphic Medicine podcast.