{"product_id":"pathographics-9780271086187","title":"PathoGraphics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—MK Czerwiec,author of \u003ci\u003eTaking Turns: Stories from HIV\/AIDS Care Unit 371\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePathoGraphics\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003ePathoGraphics\u003c\/i\u003e engagingly shows how these fields can mutually constitute new knowledge when creative practices, intersecting with illness and disability narratives, create\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea site for artistic innovation with a social justice bent.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ann Fox,Davidson College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Merrill Squier and Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Reflecting Physician\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEinat Avrahami\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s \u003ci\u003eDon’t Go Where I Can’t Follow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTahneer Oksman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Ways of Looking: Reading PathoGraphics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNina Schmidt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAriela Freedman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Tightrope to Equilibrium: Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Her Leg”: Chris Ware’s Body of Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRieke Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Spandler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Subverting Stigma: Community Building in Serial Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeah Misemer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. \u003ci\u003ePsychosis Blues\u003c\/i\u003e: Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth J. Donaldson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estef lenk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Interview with stef lenk on \u003ci\u003eThe Quickening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff and Susan Merrill Squier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Desire Paths: PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaureen Burdock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Scaling Graphic Medicine: The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Merrill Squier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400810471767,"sku":"9780271086187","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pathographics-9780271086187","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}