Squier Susan M
Brill Professor Emerita of English and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, and an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Freie Universität, Berlin.
AMA J Ethics. 2018 Feb 1;20(1):167-175. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.2.msoc1-1802.
Parasites!, a 2010 comic sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology, demonstrates that a graphic narrative can play a role in energizing public debate. Part of the genre known as graphic medicine-comics about illness, treatment, disability, and caregiving-Parasites! is intended to educate readers of all ages about illnesses less known in the developed world. Two visual strategies in particular enable the comic to offer an alternative and aesthetic response to questions about developing drugs to treat tropical diseases for profit. By including visuals and text, and not just one of these formats, viewers must reorient themselves aesthetically and epistemologically to ethical, social, cultural, and political structures that adversely affect human health.
《寄生虫！》是一部由惠康信托分子寄生虫学中心赞助的2010年漫画，它表明图文叙事可以在激发公众辩论方面发挥作用。作为“图文医学”这一类型的一部分——关于疾病、治疗、残疾和护理的漫画——《寄生虫！》旨在教育所有年龄段的读者了解在发达国家不太为人所知的疾病。特别是两种视觉策略使这部漫画能够对为盈利而研发治疗热带疾病药物的问题提供一种另类的美学回应。通过同时包含视觉元素和文字，而不只是其中一种形式，读者必须在美学和认识论层面重新定位自己，以适应那些对人类健康产生不利影响的伦理、社会、文化和政治结构。
