Using comics and graphic art to explore medical ethics is being discussed at a conference this weekend.
Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society is hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School in partnership with Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
The three-day event has attracted visitors from around the world.
Themes include the ethical dilemmas of presenting challenging medical issues such as abortion, epilepsy and mental health in the graphic novel or comic book form, the use of comics in therapy and the ethics of presenting other people’s medical experiences through this genre.
Speakers include Nicola Streeten, who wrote a memoir about bereavement following the death of her two-year old son, French graphic novelist David B, and Paul Gravett, a world authority on the use of comics.
They will be joined by medical researchers and practitioners including Bobbie Farsides, professor of clinical and biomedical ethics at the medical school, and hospital consultant Muna Al-Jawad.
Dr Al-Jawad said: “Brighton has a reputation as an openminded city, with an eclectic mix of art, academia and reallife grit.
“This makes it the perfect match for the emerging field of comics and medicine.”
The conference starts tomorrow at the medical school’s teaching building on the University of Sussex Falmer campus.
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