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Characteristic features (El Refaie 2014; in press):
• Focus on socio‐cultural and emotional aspects of the
illness experience from the patient’s perspective
• Honest about intimate details
• Frequent us of visual metaphor and humour/irony
Educational potential:
• Their accessible and entertaining nature facilitates
reader engagement and empathy
• The combination of words and visuals nature makes it possible to express subtle, complex meanings that are hard to convey through words alone
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