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Graphic Medicine

Graphic Medicine

Cour, Erin La
Poletti, Anna
Howes, Craig

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Series: Biography Monographs

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismGeneral Graphic Novels

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ISBN10: 0824893336
ISBN13: 9780824893330
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Aug 31 2022
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.98 Depth: 6.93
Language: English

In Graphic Medicine, comics 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.

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