Search Queries
Searching for graphic medicine can be a tricky task, especially when there are many terms used to describe similar formats. This section is designed to help you navigate searching the IU catalog, IUCAT, for graphic medicine and similar works. The same searching process can be used for other databases or library catalogs.
Graphic Medicine Terms
- Comics
- Comic book
- Fotonovela
- Graphic medicine
- Graphic memoir
- Medical Pathographies
- Pictorial work
In addition to the format, you will also want to consider which topics or themes you want to locate a certain book on. For example:
- Women's health (fertility, menstrual cycle, menopause/perimenopause, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, etc.)
- Mental health conditions (bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, psychosis, panic disorder, etc.)
The example above demonstrates a quick search for graphic medicine focused on menopause. The search is graphic medicine AND menopause. Using a Boolean operator AND will look for materials that include graphic medicine and menopause.
In IUCAT, you can use filters to identify materials in a particular language. You could run broad searches for graphic medicine or graphic novels published in Spanish to see everything in IU's collections.
In the search graphic medicine OR graphic novels, the results will pull materials that are classified as graphic medicine or novels. One way to do a broader search for menopause materials is to search graphic medicine OR graphic novel AND menopause, which will search for materials about menopause with either graphic medicine or graphic novel included.