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A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.
A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.
A graphic memoir of the author's experiences of her mother's battle with dementia. Illustrates the two-way nature of storytelling as a process that heals both the giver and the receiver of story.
A graphic novel depicting the stories of women who fought with the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War of Independence.
Shows how our understanding of narratives of illness can by transformed byrecognizing the zombie metaphors within them and how the recent medicalization ofpopular zombie narratives has added new dimensions to what is symbolized by thisfigure.
Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.
Combining scholarly essays with visual narratives and a conclusion in comics form, establishes graphic medicine as a new area of scholarship. Demonstrates that graphic medicine narratives offer patients, family members, and medical caregivers new ways to negotiate the challenges of the medical experience. Discusses comics as visual rhetoric.
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