PathoGraphics : : Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community / / ed. by Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, Susan Merrill Squier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Avrahami, Einat,; Burdock, Maureen,; Donaldson, Elizabeth J.,; Freedman, Ariela,; Jordan, Rieke,; Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei,; Lenk, Stef,; Misemer, Leah,; Oksman, Tahneer,; Schmidt, Nina,; Spandler, Helen,; Squier, Susan Merrill,
• HerausgeberIn: Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei,; Squier, Susan Merrill,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Graphic Medicine ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 34 color/29 b&w illustrations

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of forms—biographical essays, fictional texts, cart...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Reflecting Physician
• 2 Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow
• 3 Ways of Looking Reading PathoGraphics
• 4 The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain
• 5 The Tightrope to Equilibrium Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics
• 6 “Her Leg” Chris Ware’s Body of Work
• 7 Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons
• 8 Subverting Stigma Community Building in Serial Comics
• 9 Psychosis Blues Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration
• 10 The Quickening
• 11 Interview with Stef Lenk on The Quickening
• 12 Desire Paths PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma
• 13 Scaling Graphic Medicine The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative
• Contributors
• Index