tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240582944172046688.post8672472672305652462..comments2018-11-22T00:59:01.928-08:00Comments on Visual Culture and BioScience: Squier: response to public postCPNAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02438216163752750156noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7240582944172046688.post-75035591589945396142007-03-13T14:57:00.000-07:002007-03-13T14:57:00.000-07:00I very much agree with you. Brian Fies's "Mom's Ca...I very much agree with you. Brian Fies's "Mom's Cancer" certainly fills 'the gap between the complex understanding of medical imaging available to the biomedical imager, and the flattened reception in the medical encounter.' I grew up watching a French cartoon animation about human body myself, and that was the first time I saw what a blood cell looks like. The conversation between graphic novelists and bio-medical imagers you talked about might have already occurred there. However, I think it's only a matter of time before the medical imaging technology catches up and fills that gap itself; endoscopy, within certain limits, can produce quite a vivid image of the inside of human body; ultrasound can now provide 3-dimensional images of the womb. Even so the graphic novel still has its own merits. The casual manner of it certainly moderates the issues that are usually hard to deal with like cancer. On the other hand, finding a woman getting bald because of the chemotherapy in strip-comic format might be disturbing to some people as well.<BR/><BR/>Sorada Thumrongvit<BR/>MFA Graduate Student<BR/>SVAAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11338653824864956103noreply@blogger.com