Heart haiku : medical terminology and communication. Issue 8, July 2021.

  • Donald, Laura
Date:
2021
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About this work

Description

Heart Haiku is a series of collaborative zines of patient-produced short-form poetry. Following a call for contributions on experiences of heart disease through the format of haiku, Laura Donald asked: "Maybe you've educated yourself (or come from a medical background) and prefer to have your condition communicated in formal, precise language? Maybe you don't understand the jargon (sorry, rather a loaded word) and wish your cardiologist would talk in layman's (another loaded word) terms? Do you consider yourself speechless, proficient, fluent or a native speaker of the language of your heart condition? Is your own medical vocabulary expanding? How do you use medical terminology to communicate your condition to others?" The haikus featured in this zine were contributed as comments on heartytales.co.uk--More information can be found on the zine maker's website. https://heartytalescouk.wordpress.com/2021/07/02/haiku-time/

Publication/Creation

2021

Physical description

6 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 11 cm

Notes

This zine has non-standard binding. It consists of a 6-part folded booklet that opens out into a instructional guide on "How to Make a Mini Zine" by Drawn Poorly overleaf.
This zine was created digitially by the author, and the PDF was printed by Wellcome for inclusion in the collection.
"Hearty Tales was launched in December 2019 as a space to share my [Laura Donald] research into written representations of chronic heart disease, as well as my own experiences of living with heart failure. I'm a first-year PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching written representations of chronic heart disease from 1980 to the present. Hearty Tales is a project funded by Wellcome Trust."--From author's website, Hearty Tales.
Title from cover.
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