PathoGraphics : : narrative, aesthetics, contention, community / / Susan Merrill Squier, Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, editors.

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, car...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (237 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff
  • 1. The Reflecting Physician Einat Avrahami
  • 2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen's Don't Go Where I Can't Follow Tahneer Oksman
  • 3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics Nina Schmidt
  • 4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain Ariela Freedman
  • 5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson's Disease in Literature and Comics Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff
  • 6. Her Leg": Chris Ware's Body of Work Rieke Jordan
  • 7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons Helen Spandler
  • 8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial Comics Leah Misemer
  • 9. Psychosis Blues: Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration Elizabeth J. Donaldson
  • 10. The Quickeningstef lenk
  • 11. Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening Irmela Marei Kruger-Furhoff and Susan Merrill Squier
  • 12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma Maureen Burdock
  • 13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative Susan Merrill Squier
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.