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To examine how graphic narratives blend visual strategies and medical science to establish credibility and validate subjective experiences of chronic pain, trauma, and anxiety.

August 16, 2026Medical Humanities

Seeing pain, trauma and anxiety: the visual politics of credibility in the Really Strange series

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To examine how graphic narratives blend visual strategies and medical science to establish credibility and validate subjective experiences of chronic pain, trauma, and anxiety.
Applied a visual medical humanities framework to examine narrative and visual strategies in the Really Strange comic series.
Analyzed the integration of scientific imagery and conventions used to depict medically perplexing, invisible symptoms.
Found that graphic narratives bridge credibility gaps for invisible conditions by incorporating biomedical imagery to substantiate subjective personal testimony.
Showed that while comics democratize medical knowledge, their reliance on scientific conventions can inadvertently reinforce rigid biomedical regimes of proof.
Proposed graphic medicine literacy as a conceptual tool for clinicians and educators to critically interpret layered medicovisual representations of illness.

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Qualitative analysis demonstrates how graphic medicine establishes credibility for invisible conditions, highlighting comics as critical tools for psychoeducation and clinical communication.

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A. K. Ajeesh (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817a4cf2fb91fc834ae04d https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2026-014022

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Qualitative analysis demonstrates how graphic medicine establishes credibility for invisible conditions, highlighting comics as critical tools for psychoeducation and clinical communication.

Seeing pain, trauma and anxiety: the visual politics of credibility in the Really Strange series

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Seeing pain, trauma and anxiety: the visual politics of credibility in the Really Strange series

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