1st Edition
Graphic Medical Ethics A Casebook of Clinical Dilemmas from Around the World
Our Team: Biosketches
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Exploring Ethnographic Micro-Worlds in Comic Form
Chapter 1 Socially Determined
Chapter 2 Changing Voices
Chapter 3 War Rations
Chapter 4 Best Medicine
Chapter 5 Silent Treatment
Chapter 6 Pro Quo
Chapter 7 Shaping Beauty
Chapter 8 Conflicting Covenants
Biography
Kimberly R. Myers, M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Humanities and Medicine, Distinguished Educator, Penn State College of Medicine; Program Director, Schwartz Center Rounds, Penn State Hershey Medical Center; Series Co-Editor, Medical Humanities: Criticism & Creativity (Peter Lang, Oxford). Dr. Myers is an award-winning teacher and mentor of medical and undergraduate students and an expert in interdisciplinary curriculum innovation and implementation. She co-created and co-directs the “Medical Humanities” course required of all first-year medical students at Penn State. Her scholarly work focuses on medical education, illness narratives, graphic medicine, and medical creative writing. Dr. Myers founded and hosts the Penn State Hershey Physician Writers Group, whose members regularly publish creative writing in professional medical journals. Dr. Myers lectures internationally on creativity in illness and in medical education. In the summer of 2016, she was Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, England.
