Show me where it hurts : manifesting illness and impairment in graphic pathography / Monica Chiu.

  • Chiu, Monica, 1965-
Date:
[2024]
  • Books

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Description

"Explores graphic pathography, long-form comics by and about subjects who suffer from disease or are impaired, and how it improves various negatively affected corporeal states through hand-drawn images"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Physical description

183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index.

Contents

Introduction : making illness and impairment manifest -- Graphic genesis and the somatic text : Davison's The spiral cage -- Facing cancer, the face of cancer : beauty, health, and affect in Marchetto's Cancer vixen and Ann Tenna -- Aging by frames : thready lines, haptic images, and institutions of care in Chast's Can't we talk about something more pleasant? and Farmer's Special exits -- Hospital waiting rooms as medicine's sedimented spaces : Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Potts's Good eggs -- Graphting and the model minority in Chong and Webber's Dancing after TEN -- Vital viruses : animating herpes, pathologizing whiteness in Dahl's Monsters and Schulz's Sick -- Conclusion : uncharted; graphic medicine by medical interns -- Coda : the absent presence of race; racial essentialism and graphic pathology.

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    History of Medicine
    HB.AL
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  • 9780271096827
  • 0271096829