Graphic Medicine Collection
Ebooks
Gender Queer: a Memoir by ISBN: 9781549304002Publication Date: 2019-05-28Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means to be nonbinary and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Past Tense by ISBN: 9780593541364Publication Date: 2024-10-15Past Tense takes us inside Sacha's therapy sessions, which over time become life-changing: She begins to come to terms with her turbulent and complicated upbringing, which centered around her now estranged father, who had a violent relationship with her mother and would later go to prison for sexually abusing her stepsister. Past Tense is a story about our power to break free of the past - once and for all - and find hope.
Two Heads by ISBN: 9781501194078Publication Date: 2022-04-26This "charming and addictively accessible introduction to neuroscience" (Steven Pinker) takes us on a highly entertaining tour through the wonders and mysteries of the human brain--from a renowned husband-and-wife team of cognitive neuroscientists. Here, in this "pleasing mix of wonder, genial humor, and humility" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), they tell the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research, and new frontiers of social cognition including diversity, prejudice, confidence, collaboration, and empathy.
Discover more at Graphic Medicine.org
Graphic Medicine.org: created and run by Dr. Ian Williams author of Bad Doctor, The Lady Doctor and co-author of The Graphic Medicine Manifesto.
A resource dedicated to promoting the expanding genre of graphic medicine. Includes book reviews, updates on all current releases in the genre, and syllabuses from courses across the globe that focus on graphic medicine novels.
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