{"title":"Graphic Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll available volumes of \u003cstrong\u003eGraphic Medicine\u003c\/strong\u003e at Manga Deal, in reading order. New volumes are added automatically.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780271086170","title":"Pathographics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Introduction Susan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff 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 Krüger-Fürhoff 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 Quickening stef lenk 11. Interview with stef lenk on The Quickening Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff 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 Biographical Note : Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016-21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto , also published by Penn State University Press. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016-2021 PathoGraphics research project. Brief Description : \"A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability\"-- Review Quotes : \"This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines textual and graphic representations of illness, disability, and pain, describing how the narratives in question use the aesthetics of their medium to embrace contention and community. The authors reclaim ground previously ceded to traditional paradigms and in the process liberate the mind, the body, and the text.\" --MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV\/AIDS Care Unit 371 Review Quotes : \" PathoGraphics advances discussions about how to read, visualize, and create comics about illness and disability in complex and welcome ways. The contributors are extremely well informed about the fields from which the book draws: narrative medicine, literary studies, disability studies, comics studies, and graphic medicine. PathoGraphics engagingly shows how these fields can mutually constitute new knowledge when creative practices, intersecting with illness and disability narratives, create a site for artistic innovation with a social justice bent.\" --Ann Fox, Davidson College Publisher Marketing : 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, cartoons, graphic novels, and comics--reflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped. Works of fiction addressing the impact of an illness or disability; autobiographies and memoirs exploring an experience of medical treatment; and comics that portray illness or disability from the perspective of patient, family member, or caregiver: all of these narratives forge a specific aesthetic in order to communicate their understanding of the human condition. This collection demonstrates what can emerge when scholars and artists interested in fiction, life-writing, and comics collaborate to explore how various media portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Rather than stopping at the limits of genre or medium, the essays talk across fields, exploring together how works in these different forms craft narratives and aesthetics to negotiate contention and build community around those experiences and to discover how the knowledge and experiences of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal, and the cultural. Ultimately, they demonstrate a common purpose: to examine the ways comics and literary texts build an audience and galvanize not just empathy but also action. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Einat Avrahami, Maureen Burdock, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ariela Freedman, Rieke Jordan, stef lenk, Leah Misemer, Tahneer Oksman, Nina Schmidt, and Helen Spandler. Chapter 7, \" Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons,\" by Helen Spandler, is available as Open Access courtesy of a grant from the Wellcome Trust. A link to the OA version of this chapter is forthcoming. Contributor Bio: Squier, Susan Merrill Susan Merrill Squier is Julia Gregg Brill Professor Emerita of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University, a founding member of the Graphic Medicine Collective, Coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Series, and Einstein Visiting Fellow of the 2016-21 PathoGraphics Research Project. Her publications include Graphic Medicine Manifesto , also published by Penn State University Press. Contributor Bio: Krüger-Fürhoff, Irmela Marei Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff is Professor of German Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and academic lead of the 2016-2021 PathoGraphics research project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020-06-08\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202159231202,"sku":"9780271086170","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/0005\/1501\/files\/9780271086170.jpg?v=1765442415"},{"product_id":"9780271084749","title":"Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: Scott T. Smith is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University. José Alaniz is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. Brief Description : \"Explores how superhero comics, with their creative fusions of fantasy and realism, provide a flexible visual form for engaging issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, class, gender, sexuality) as well as for imagining and valuing different physical and cognitive ways of being in the world\"--Provided by publisher. Review Quotes : \" Uncanny Bodies offers nuanced interrogations of how dis\/ability is presented within superhero narratives. The strength of the volume lies in the wide range of topics treated and in the diverse methodological approaches chosen, from posthumanist considerations to queer theory. A constant is an unwavering commitment to taking seriously the multifaceted and intersectional nature of the issue(s) at hand. As such, Uncanny Bodies will be a point of reference for further scholarship in the field.\" --Joanna Nowotny, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich Review Quotes : \"A remarkably significant contribution to both disability studies and comics studies. The essays collected here interrogate how superhero comics have struggled with reconciling the fantasy of the superbody with a growing concern, among producers and readers, for a more diverse and more adequate treatment of disabilities ranging from autism and dissociative identity disorder to deafness and progressive muscular dystrophy. A truly eye-opening book!\" --Daniel Stein, University of Siegen Review Quotes : \"Historically, the mad villain and the supercrip have embodied comics' problematic relationship to disability. However, Smith, Alaniz, and their contributors use an intersectional lens to capture the diverse range of superhero comics that move beyond these stereotypes. Through discussions of chronic, temporary, and fluid visible and invisible disabilities in such comics as Birds of Prey , Hawkeye , and El Deafo , the volume expands our understanding of the superhero figure and pushes the limits of disability studies.\" --Leah Misemer, Georgia Institute of Technology Review Quotes : \"What is particularly laudable about Uncanny Bodies is that it remains nuanced and specific throughout. Reflections complicating the motif of empowerment are present just as are descriptions of truly empowering moments and projects. As such, the volume is an important contribution to the discourse on dis\/ability--and its links to the depiction of bodies in recent visual popular culture.\" --Lukas Etter, co-editor of Reader Superhelden Review Quotes : \"Published as part of the \"Graphic Medicine\" series from Penn State University Press, Uncanny Bodies is a significant and essential contribution to comics studies as well as to the expanding body of research on and interrogation of the depiction of disability in society and culture.\" --J. G. Matthews Choice Publisher Marketing : Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters--such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion--as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye , whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O'Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths. Contributor Bio: Smith, Scott T Scott T. Smith is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019-11-27\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47202358395106,"sku":"9780271084749","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/0005\/1501\/files\/9780271084749.jpg?v=1765449492"},{"product_id":"9780271078465","title":"The Facts of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A graphic memoir and visual exploration of the stigma-inducing health issues of miscarriage, childlessness, and chronic medical conditions\"--Provided by publisher.\n\n\"A graphic memoir and visual exploration of the stigma-inducing health issues of miscarriage, childlessness, and chronic medical conditions\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: In the 1970s, best friends Polly and April collect hazy knowledge about the \"facts of life\"--sex, reproduction, and gender norms--through the gossip of older girls, magazines and books, and the everyday behavior of their families and teachers. What they learn reinforces their assumption that they will grow up to become mothers. As the years pass, they each choose paths that they believe will enable them to \"have it all.\" April's dreams of motherhood come true before too long, but as Polly enthusiastically builds a career, her desire and hope to start a family become less firmly ingrained. Her struggles with chronic illness also have an effect on her choices and relationships, and she wonders whether motherhood will be in the cards for her at all. Soon she meets Jack, and together they start a fraught journey, first debating whether parenthood is right for them and then facing the heartbreak of repeated miscarriages and the effects of illness on their ability to have a child. Through it all, Polly is forced to reexamine what family can mean in a society that so often associates family--and womanhood--with children. Beautifully drawn and poignantly honest, The Facts of Life is a funny, sometimes painful graphic memoir that explores what it takes to be a woman, a partner, and a mother . . . or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2017-03-15\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278690136290,"sku":"9780271078465","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0023\/0005\/1501\/files\/9780271078465.jpg?v=1787959037"},{"product_id":"9780271074689","title":"Aliceheimer's: Alzheimer's Through the Looking Glass","description":"\u003cp\u003eReprint of: Aliceheimer's \/ Dana Walrath. Yerevan, Armenia, Harvest Publishers, 2013.\n\n\"A graphic memoir of the author's experiences of her mother's battle with dementia. Illustrates the two-way nature of storytelling as a process that heals both the giver and the receiver of story\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: \"Alice was always beautiful--Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes,\" writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer's, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man, she can no longer attend to the basics of caring for herself. Alice moves to live with her daughter, Dana, in Vermont, and the story begins.   Aliceheimer's is a series of illustrated vignettes, daily glimpses into their world with Alzheimer's. Walrath's time with her mother was marked by humor and clarity: \"With a community of help that included pirates, good neighbors, a cast of characters from space-time travel, and my dead father hovering in the branches of the maple trees that surround our Vermont farmhouse, Aliceheimer's let us write our own story daily--a story that, in turn, helps rewrite the dominant medical narrative of aging.\"  In drawing Alice, Walrath literally enrobes her with cut-up pages from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She weaves elements from Lewis Carroll's classic throughout her text, using evocative phrases from the novel to introduce the vignettes, such as \"Disappearing Alice,\" \"Missing Pieces,\" \"Falling Slowly,\" \"Curiouser and Curiouser,\" and \"A Mad Tea Party.\"  Walrath writes that creating this book allowed her not only to process her grief over her mother's dementia, but also \"to remember the magic laughter of that time.\" Graphic medicine, she writes, \"lets us better understand those who are hurting, feel their stories, and redraw and renegotiate those social boundaries. 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