Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 19, 2025
14:32
Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
23.8K
COVID-19, Graphic Medicine, and Thinking Beyond Data
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
|December 5, 2022
Summary
Graphic medicine critiques COVID-19 data by re-drawing visualizations. This approach humanizes pandemic experiences, showcasing individual stories beyond mere numbers and graphs.
Area of Science:
- Medical Humanities
- Digital Health
- Visual Culture Studies
Background:
- The COVID-19 pandemic generated vast datasets, quantifying public health.
- These datafied representations risk reducing human experiences to abstract statistics.
- Graphic medicine offers a unique lens to explore the human impact of data.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze how graphic medicine critiques, supplements, and exposes limitations in COVID-19 data visualizations.
- To investigate the distinct graphical representations used in comics versus traditional data visualizations.
- To demonstrate how graphic medicine reclaims individual narratives within data-driven contexts.
Main Methods:
- Close reading of comic panels from graphic medical narratives.
- Analysis of specific works: Andy Warner's "The Nib Bureau of Statistics" (2020), Sarah Firth's "State of Emergency" (2021), and Randall Munroe's "Statistics" (2020).
- Comparative analysis of graphic medicine's approach versus standard data visualization techniques.
Main Results:
- Graphic medicine "re-draws" data visualizations through imitation, subversion, and displacement.
- Comics showcase multiple temporalities, marginal agencies, and the affective nature of human existence.
- Graphic medicine humanizes data, reclaiming individual lives and stories.
Conclusions:
- Graphic medicine provides a vital humanistic intervention in a data-dominated world.
- It emphasizes contextualizing and humanizing data for a more sensitive presentation.
- This approach conveys our entangled existence and collective states beyond quantitative metrics.
Related Concept Videos
01:18Steps in Outbreak Investigation
170
In the ever-evolving field of public health, statistical analysis serves as a cornerstone for understanding and managing disease outbreaks. By leveraging various statistical tools, health professionals can predict potential outbreaks, analyze ongoing situations, and devise effective responses to mitigate impact. For that to happen, there are a few possible stages of the analysis:
170
01:25Statistical Methods for Analyzing Epidemiological Data
478
Epidemiological data primarily involves information on specific populations' occurrence, distribution, and determinants of health and diseases. This data is crucial for understanding disease patterns and impacts, aiding public health decision-making and disease prevention strategies. The analysis of epidemiological data employs various statistical methods to interpret health-related data effectively. Here are some commonly used methods:
478
01:12Statistical Software for Data Analysis and Clinical Trials
725
Statistical software is pivotal in data analysis and clinical trials by providing tools to analyze data, draw conclusions, and make predictions. These software packages range from simple data management applications to complex analytical platforms, supporting various statistical tests, models, and simulation techniques. Their significance lies in their ability to handle vast amounts of data with precision and efficiency, enabling researchers to validate hypotheses, identify trends, and make...
725
01:26Principles of Disease Surveillance
165
Disease surveillance is the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. This process integrates data dissemination to entities responsible for preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. Surveillance systems provide crucial information for action, helping public health authorities make informed decisions to manage and prevent outbreaks, ensure public safety, optimize...
165
01:20Comparing the Survival Analysis of Two or More Groups
247
Survival analysis is a cornerstone of medical research, used to evaluate the time until an event of interest occurs, such as death, disease recurrence, or recovery. Unlike standard statistical methods, survival analysis is particularly adept at handling censored data—instances where the event has not occurred for some participants by the end of the study or remains unobserved. To address these unique challenges, specialized techniques like the Kaplan-Meier estimator, log-rank test, and...
247
00:52Pareto Chart
6.9K
A Pareto chart is a bar graph or a combination of both line and bar graphs. The bar lengths represent the individual values or the frequency, while the lines represent the cumulative total values. In this chart, the longest bars are arranged on the left and the shortest bars on the right, which makes it easier to read and interpret the data. It can also be called a Pareto diagram or Pareto analysis.
The Pareto chart is named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who described the Pareto...
The Pareto chart is named after the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who described the Pareto...
6.9K