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SUMMARY:Medicine in American Popular Graphics from Political Cartoons of the 1860s to Children’s Comic Books in the 1940s
DESCRIPTION:In this illustrated talk\, Professor Bert Hansen sketches out a 
 century-long sequence of American comic and cartoon art that sets the stage 
 for the “graphic medicine” movement flourishing today.\n\nStarting with 
 Civil-War era political cartoons by the famous Thomas Nast\, the talk 
 explores humorous caricatures in Puck and Judge from the Gilded Age\, and 
 then glances at photojournalism and the story-telling style of LIFE 
 magazine. The narrative ends with the explosive growth of the familiar 
 action/adventure comics in the 1940s\, many of which featured heroes like 
 Walter Reed\, Louis Pasteur\, Edward Jenner\, and Joseph Goldberger. This 
 history illustrates how medicine and public health stories were being 
 imagined by innovative graphic artists over a hundred years of changing 
 media.\n\nPlease note that this event will not be recorded.\n\n \n\nAbout 
 the Speaker:\n\nBert Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch 
 College of CUNY. He is the author of Picturing Medical Progress from 
 Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in 
 America. His recent publications include "The Kids are Alright" on juvenile 
 biographies of scientists\; "Pasteur in the Classroom: Rediscovering a 
 1940s Film\," an invited blog for the National Library of Medicine"\; Does 
 Louis Pasteur Still Matter? Or will the scientist’s 200th birthday be his 
 last soirée?" Distillations (November 2022)\; and "Pasteur's Lifelong 
 Engagement with the Fine Arts\," Annals of Science (2021). His other 
 articles on Pasteur's involvement with artists are now freely available 
 through his website and also at these links: "Edelfelt Collaboration" at 
 Project Muse\, "Claudet and Dubois" at SAGE journals\, and "Three 
 Compatriots" at SAGE journals.\n\n-- \n\nLearn more about the NLM traveling 
 exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn and other related 
 events at countway.info/graphicmed.\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n
ORGANIZER;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Events, History of Medicine
CONTACT;CN="Yasmina Kamal":MAILTO:Yasmina_kamal@hms.harvard.edu
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