Dealing With Illness? Read a Comic
Jane Tolmie
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Posted 12.15.2011
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Canada Living
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The experience of chronic suffering is difficult to convey in clinical settings and language, but it can be rendered more approachable via a combination of creative techniques. The 'medical humanities' movement is following up on what the world of medical comics can tell us about human experience.
