This website features a selection of comics from the "Graphic Medicine: Reading Comics Anthropologically" course, taught by Maria Tapias and Tilly Woodward at Grinnell College.

This course explores the burgeoning field of graphic medicine through the lens of cultural anthropology. Targeting an audience of physicians, patients, and caretakers, medical comics provide insights into the culture of biomedicine, including language and power dynamics and the cultural constructions of illness. In addition to learning how to read comics critically, students will interview a patient, write a “pathography” and produce a comic of their own.