COMICS & MEDICINE:
The Sequential Art of Illness
This event was co-sponsored by the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Department of Humanities at Penn State College of Medicine, and the Science, Technology and Society Program of Penn State University, and was supported by a grant from Jean Schulz.
This second international interdisciplinary conference explored the past, present, and possible future of comics in the context of the healthcare experience.
June 9-11, 2011 - Chicago, IL
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
“The coolest conference on earth.”
-Rinko Endo
The conference featured presentations by thirty panelists discussing ways they are using comics in medicine.
The conference featured workshops by Neil Phillips, Brian Fies, and Sarah Leavitt
The conference concluded with a free public lecture and Q&A by
The conference opened with an exhibit of comic art being used in medicine - see the exhibit online here.
