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

Author/creator Chiu, Monica, 1965- author.
Format Book
PublicationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]
Copyright Date©2024
Description183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGraphic medicine
Graphic medicine. ^A1438701
Contents Introduction. Making illness and impairment manifest -- 1. Graphic genesis and the somatic text : Davison's The spiral cage -- 2. Facing cancer, the face of cancer : beauty, health, and affect in Marchetto's Cancer vixen and Ann Tenna -- 3. 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 -- 4. Hospital waiting rooms as medicine's sedimented spaces : Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Potts's Good eggs -- 5. Graphting and the model minority in Chong and Webber's Dancing after TEN -- 6. 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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index.
LCCN 2023041346
ISBN9780271096827 hardcover
ISBN0271096829 hardcover

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Laupus Popular Reading Collection WZ 330 C543 2024 ✔ Available Place Hold