Medicine: A Graphic History is The Guardian’s Graphic Novel of the Month!
Guardian Graphic Novel of the Month! In Medicine: A Graphic History, surgeon and professor of medical history Jean-Noël Fabiani stitches together the most significant and intriguing episodes from the story of medicine, from chance breakthroughs to hard-won scientific discoveries, featuring a vivid cast of history’s most dedicated and often heroic personalities.
Spanning centuries and crossing continents, this fast-paced and rigorously detailed graphic novel guides us through one of the most wondrous strands of human history, covering everything from bloodletting to organ donation, plague to prosthetics, X-rays to Viagra.
Whew! This book was a research workout. It had some wonderful historical anecdotes, some of which led me down delightful rabbit-holes I hope to go down farther someday when I have time.
““This utterly brilliant comic will feed you vital and amazing information so painlessly you’ll barely realise how much you’re learning.””
““This graphic history tells a rich and important story which is, as Fabiani notes, both ‘deadly serious and essentially comic’.””
