Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story (A Research Comic)

Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story (A Research Comic)

“Losing Thomas & Ella” presents a research comic about one father’s perinatal loss of twins. The comic recounts Paul’s experience of the hospital and the babies’ deaths, and it details the complex grieving process afterward, including themes of anger, distance, relationship stress, self-blame, r...

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Published in:The Journal of medical humanities Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 215 - 230
Main Author: Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Springer US 01-09-2017
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies
Death
Fathers - psychology
Graphic Novels as Topic
Grief
Humans
Literature
Male
Narration
Perinatal Death
Qualitative Research
Regional and Cultural Studies
Stillbirth
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Qualitative research
Grief
Research comics
Perinatal death
Stillbirth
Fathers
Comics-based research
Sequential art
Narrative research
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Summary:“Losing Thomas & Ella” presents a research comic about one father’s perinatal loss of twins. The comic recounts Paul’s experience of the hospital and the babies’ deaths, and it details the complex grieving process afterward, including themes of anger, distance, relationship stress, self-blame, religious challenges, and resignation. A methodological appendix explains the process of constructing the comic and provides a rationale for the use of comics-based research for illness, death, and grief among practitioners, policy makers, and the bereaved.
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ISSN:1041-3545
1573-3645
DOI:10.1007/s10912-015-9359-z