ABSTRACT
Emerging at the crossroads of health humanities and narrative medicine, graphic medicine is an artistic yet scholarly discipline that negotiates illness experiences using the medium of comics. While graphic medicine emerged only in 2007, its origin can be traced to as early as 1948 when the term medical humanities entered academia. Besides analyzing the cultural association between comics and medicine since the 1930s, this chapter also traces the evolution of graphic medicine from the historical nexus of comics and medicine, through medical humanities, to narrative medicine.
