Show me where it hurts : manifesting illness and impairment in graphic pathography / Monica Chiu.
| Author/creator | Chiu, Monica, 1965- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Graphic 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-172) and index. |
| LCCN | 2023041346 |
| ISBN | 9780271096827 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0271096829 hardcover |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laupus | Popular Reading Collection | WZ 330 C543 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |