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Comics are Research: Graphic Narratives as a New Wayof Seeing Clinical Practice
Muna Al-Jawad
# Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Abstract As a doctor and practitioner researcher, I use comics as a research method. Thisgraphic article is an attempt to convince you, the academy and perhaps myself, that comicsare research.
Keywords Comics . Graphic medicine . Regard . Practitioner research
J Med HumanitDOI 10.1007/s10912-013-9205-0
M. Al-Jawad (*)Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Eastern Road, Brighton, EastSussex BN2 5BE, UKe-mail: [email protected]
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