Terminology
Field involving the intersection of comics and health care
What is graphic medicine?
According to Emily Dickinson, “Pain has an element of” this
What is Blank?
In “The Empathy Exams,” Leslie Jamison writes about her experience doing this job
What is medical actor?
The metaphor for pain that David Morris suggests as an alternative to “puzzle”
What is mystery?
“They were blaming the ill, telling him that he deserved it, that he got cancer because he was trans”
What is "Queer in a Common Country" / Who is Kara Sievewright?
As defined by Rita Charon, a type of medicine where practitioners are able to “recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by stories of illness”
What is narrative medicine?
Tobin Siebers argues that the fear of pain leads to the justifications oppressing this group of people
Who are people with disabilities?
Olivia Banner critiques “the empathy _______________,” or “the widespread belief that reading inspires empathy, and that by inspiring empathy in physicians medicine will be improved”
What is hypothesis?
The metaphor Sylvia Plath uses for the speaker’s body in her poem “Tulips”: “My body is a _______________ to them, they tend it as water….”
What is pebble?
“To most physicians, my illness is a routine incident in their rounds, while for me it's the crisis of my life. I would feel better if I had a doctor who, at least, perceived this incongruity.”
What is "Doctor Talk to Me" / Who is Anatole Broyard?
Term coined by Sayantani DasGupta as an alternative to narrative “competency”
What is narrative humility?
The two types of pain referred to by David Morris’s phrase “The Myth of Two Pains”
What are mental and physical?
A 2013 study found that reading this type of material increased people’s capacity “to infer and understand other people’s thoughts and emotions”
What is fiction?
In On Immunity, Eula Biss points out the ways that this fictional creature from a 19th century novel has served as a metaphor for medicine
Who is Dracula?
“Dr. Cavanaugh is smart like a switchblade and wears knee-high black boots with her white coat. She looks completely together. She might be my polar opposite.”
What is The Bright Hour / Who is Nina Riggs?
An ideology that supports free-market capitalism and emphasizes self-responsibility
What is neoliberalism?
In a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, the place where the speaker overhears “a cry of pain”
What is a waiting room?
Leslie Jamison points out that the word “empathy” comes from the Greek empatheia, meaning “into ______________”
What is feeling?
According to Sontag, a metaphor that is associated with cancer
What is invasion?
“My dear old friends…I am desirous of your assistance in one of those little experiments with which I amuse myself here in my study.”
Atkinson et. al. call for a “______________ medical humanities” to “open out and interrogate the multiple ways in which ‘the medical,’ medicine and health are encountered and experienced”
What is critical?
Mexican artist well-known for her representations of pain in paintings like “Henry Ford Hospital” and “The Broken Column”
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Olivia Banner cites Rebecca Garden’s “The Problems of Empathy,” in which Garden points out that empathy “depends on the experiences and imagination of the person who is _________________________,” rather than the person who is suffering
What is empathizing?
According to Sontag, a metaphor that is associated with syphilis
What is pollution?
“‘The Baby won’t suffer as much as you,’ says the Surgeon.”
What is "People Like That are the Only People Here" / Who is Lorrie Moore?