title: Hospice Comics: Representations of Patient and Family Experience of Illness and Death in Graphic Novels.
abstract: Non-fiction graphic novels about illness and death created by patients and their loved ones have much to teach all readers. However, the bond of empathy made possible in the comic form may have special lessons for healthcare providers who read these texts and are open to the insights they provide.
authors.affiliation: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Czerwiec
authors.affiliation: Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. michelle.huang@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Michelle N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002359:Cartoons as Topic; D003643:Death; D004645:Empathy; D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D033262:Narration; D013727:Terminal Care
keywords: Caregiving; Comics and medicine; Empathy; Graphic medicine; Graphic pathography; Hospice; Hospice comics; Narrative medicine; Nursing