Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.

LGBTQ+ people and communities continue to survive and thrive within the context of complex and unrelenting personal, structural, and collective trauma. Psychological research has examined this adaptive capacity through frameworks of resilience and posttraumatic growth. Through multidisciplinary engagement, we have identified limitations of these frameworks when they are applied to LGBTQ+ communities.

How Do We Know What We Don't Know About Maternal Mortality After ?

This narrative information graphic contextualizes the lack of current maternal morbidity and mortality data in the United States since the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in 2022.

Visual Abstract of "How Should We Approach Body Size Diversity in Clinical Trials?".

This visual abstract is based on an article from the July 2023 issue of the journal.

Triptych on Stress, Anxiety, and Loneliness.

Three digital drawings invite interpretations of a cornered figure's orientations to space, color, and its own boundaries and self. Little variation among lines and spaces, their colors and shades, and the figure's position suggest the representational importance of each to discerning meaning about how we forge connection.

On Stage, But Not on Cue.

This comic considers how patients can work to use the right vocabulary to help their physicians help them, since patients suffer when physicians fail to properly diagnose and intervene on their ailments. This comic also considers how patients can experience performance anxiety after what might be months of preparation for a key clinic visit in hopes of getting help.

"What Race Are You?".

This comic shares a true story of a physician's fraught interaction with and examination of a patient and prompts consideration of how context, empathy, and emotional intelligence play key roles in how well patient-physician conversation is likely to go in the moment and when replayed by a patient after an awkward, uncomfortable encounter.

A Clinical Encounter in Historical Context.

This drawing considers the importance of understanding history's role in contextualizing many patients' present-day health care experiences.

Why Would Having Learned to Cope While Waiting for This Appointment Make This Pain Normal?

This comic investigates ethical dimensions of the experiences of patients whose pain has become normalized while waiting for clinical attention.

Bank Cards Might as Well Be Tarot Cards.

This comic compares a lack of price transparency in health care billing to psychic card readings.

Questioning Marriage and Family Norms.

In , a woman is stressed by unsolicited opinions and frequent insinuations that marriage inevitably leads to babies. She laments, "Even the pope's got an opinion!," in response to his suggestion that selfishness motivates couples who choose not to have children.

How Well Do We See White Supremacy as a Source of Harm in the Culture of Medicine?

is a comic that investigates cultures' limitations in identifying and investigating their own blind spots. In health care, for example, medicine is a culture not always well equipped to see its capacity to harm patients or to save itself from harm incursion mechanisms endemic to White supremacy, which medicine has long promoted, intentionally or not, throughout its history.

Appetites Are Not Ethically Neutral.

The comic illustrates an irony at play: a patient's gift of a box of donuts is offered in thanks just as a physician recommends "more vegetables and less refined sugars."

At War With Bodies' Limits.

In American culture, blood, sweat, and tears mantras of sports remind athletes that they are expected to perform past their breaking point. This comic considers this expectation narratively and visually.

Public Health Risk and Civic Peership.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some US federal courts required jurors' vaccination against COVID-19, which, according to some, made a juror less representative of a peer. This comic investigates this set of concerns narratively and visually.

Contraception Options.

considers the general social and cultural expectation and norm that women's bodies should be the sites of contraception. The comic represents frustration with inequitable distribution of contraceptive burden.

Three Things to Learn and Do in Practice With Patients With Disabilities.

Clinicians can practice disability humility by developing social understandings of disability. This can help clinicians improve communication and express respect for patients' authority on their experiences.

Drowning Outside the Insurance Pool.

This graphic narrative explores struggles with underinsurance, compromised access to indicated care, and intergenerational health inequity.

Characterization of surface materials on African sculptures: new insights from a multi-analytical study including proteomics.

Multiple analytical techniques were used to characterize materials from the surfaces of two African sculptures in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago: a Bamana power object (boli), and a Yoruba wooden sculpture of a female figure. Surface accretions on objects such as these have received relatively little scientific attention to elucidate their composition and function, in part because they are made with complex mixtures of natural materials, which are often unfamiliar and poorly represented in the scientific literature on artists' materials. For this reason, a complement of techniques including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry were applied, along with shotgun proteomics to better understand the nature and biological origin, down to the species level, of the proteinaceous materials.

Indigenous Apocalypse and Transgenerational Trauma.

The disproportionate negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Native communities is a result of transgenerational traumas-mental and physical-which have been ongoing and developing for centuries. This article considers 19th-century American visual and narrative representations of Native experiences of and responses to transgenerational trauma. This article also suggests ethical implications for Native American health of interpreting those representations and suggests an obligation to look on 19th-century White American artists' romanticizations of Native experiences with humility.

What the Activism and Art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Gregg Bordowitz Teach Us About Health and Human Rights.

Living through a pandemic and social upheaval suggests the importance of revisiting the intersections of the art and activism of Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Gregg Bordowitz. These artists' works express their experiences of living through a pandemic and subsequent social change and draw out key human rights themes. The works' materials, poetics, and invitations to interact offer opportunities for audiences to reflect on complex and ethically relevant social and cultural dynamics that surface during global crises, such as negotiating personal and collective interests, the politics of touch and coexistence, and cultivating resilience and strength.

Sanctuary Health Care.

Eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States, including children, face barriers to health. By practicing 4 elements of sanctuary health care, clinicians and organizations can help.

Should We Be Laughing More in Art Museums and Hospitals?

If both art and laughter are good for your health, why aren't we encouraging more humor in museums and hospitals? We are taught to approach art with awe and respect-and to treat medicine as deadly serious business. It follows, then, that overt displays of humor, such as laughing or joking in a museum, doctor's office, or hospital, are probably in bad taste. But if viewing and making art can lower rates of anxiety and depression and help soothe chronic pain-and if laughter helps blood vessels function better and improves the flow of oxygen to the heart and brain-then perhaps we unwittingly deprive our patrons and patients of an important tool in the health and wellness toolbox.

Salvation in a Time of Plague.

Health workers offer their skills and care to COVID-19 pandemic patients, just as St Roch offered healing to those stricken by bubonic plague during the Renaissance. This article interprets 3 works of art in light of Roch's story of illness and recovery and applies key insights of ethical, artistic, and clinical relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What Does Multiple Production of Artworks Teach Us About Authenticity and Germline Editing?

This article considers ethical questions about artwork reproduction and how they can be applied to germline editing. Walter Benjamin's 1935 essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" is a good starting point, as it discusses how the concept of is ethically and aesthetically relevant when considering works of art intended to be created as multiples or in editions of identical works: photographs and cast sculpture. When producing multiples of a work of art, authenticity tends to be perceived in proximity to an artist's original intention.