Graphic medicine
edited by Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- Honolulu : Published for the George and Marguerite Simson Biographical Research Center by the University of Hawai'i Press, [2022]
- Copyright:
- ©2022
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- Summary:
- "In Graphic Medicine, comic artists and scholars of life writing, literature, and comics explore the lived experience of illness and disability through original texts, images, and the dynamic interplay between the two. The essays and autobiographical comics in this collection respond to the medical humanities' call for different perceptions and representations of illness and disability than those found in conventional medical discourse. The collection expands and troubles our understanding of the relationships between patients and doctors, nurses, social workers, caregivers, and family members, considering such encounters in terms of cultural context, language, gender, class, and ethnicity. By treating illness and disability as an experience of fundamentally changed living, rather than a separate narrative episode organized by treatment, recovery, and a return to 'normal life', Graphic Medicine asks what it means to give and receive care. During the past decade, graphic medicine comics have proliferated - an outpouring accelerated recently by the greatest health crisis in a century. Graphic Medicine helps us recognize that however unpleasant or complicated it may be, interacting with such stories offers fresh insights, suggests new forms of acceptance, and enhances our abilities to speak to others about the experience of illness and disability"--Back cover.
- Table of Contents:
- Graphic medicine's possible futures: reconsidering poetics and reading / Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti
- Conflict or compromise? An imagined conversation with John Hicklenton and Lindsay Cooper about living with multiple sclerosis / John Miers
- Out of sync: chronic illness, time, and comics memoir / Jared Gardner
- Is this recovery?: chronicity and closure in graphic illness memoir / Nancy K. Miller
- Face as landscape: reconfiguring illness, disability, and disorders in David B.'s Epileptic / Erin La Cour
- Disability daily drawn: a comics collaboration / Joann Purcell with Simone Purcell Randmaa
- Reframing "nothing about us without us": comics and intellectual disability / Susan M. Squier
- Graphic confessions and the vulnerability hangover from hell / Safdar Ahmed
- Drawing is the best medicine: somatic dis-ease and graphic revenge in Miriam Katin's letting it go / Julia Watson
- If that's what you want to call it: an illustrated rx-ay for graphic medicine / Suzy Becker
- Drawn to history: healing, dementia, and the Armenian Genocide in the intertextual collage of Aliceheimer's / Crystal Yin Lie
- Outsider writing: the healing art of Robert Walser / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth.
- Contributors:
- La Cour, Erin , editorPoletti, Anna , editor
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 23 cm.
- Physical Characteristics:
- illustration
- Call Numbers:
- RA440.5 .G73 2022
- ISBNs:
- 9780824893330 (paperback)
0824893336 (paperback) - OCLC Numbers:
- 1285672566