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The walking med : zombies and the medical image / edited by Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint ; foreword by Steven Schlozman.

Van Pelt Library RA418 .W35 2016
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schlozman, Steven C., Author of introduction, etc.
Contributor:
Servitje, Lorenzo, 1983- editor.
Vint, Sherryl, 1969- editor.
Series:
Graphic medicine
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Diseases--Social aspects.
Diseases.
Social medicine.
Zombies in popular culture.
Cartoons as Topic.
Ethics, Medical.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Medicine in the Arts.
Medicine in Literature.
United States.
Medical Subjects:
Cartoons as Topic.
Ethics, Medical.
Attitude of Health Personnel.
Medicine in the Arts.
Medicine in Literature.
United States.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Summary:
"Shows how our understanding of narratives of illness can by transformed by recognizing the zombie metaphors within them and how the recent medicalization of popular zombie narratives has added new dimensions to what is symbolized by this figure"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Foreword / Steven Schlozman
Preface / Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint
Graphic medicine contracts the zombie craze: an introduction / Lorenzo Servitje
part 1. Diagnosing zombie culture. Don't point that gun at my mum : geriatric zombies / Gerry Canavan
Viral virulence, postmodern zombies, and the American healthcare enterprise in the antibiotic age / Kari Nixon
"The cure has killed us all" : dramatizing medical ethics through zombie and period fiction tropes in the new deadwardians / Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman
part 2. Reading the zombie metaphor. The walking med : zombies, comics, and medical education / Michael Green, Daniel George, and Darryl Wilkinson
Zombie toxins : abjection and cancer's chemicals / Juliet McMullin
Administering the crisis : zombies and public health in the 28 days later comic series / Sherryl Vint
part 3. Visualizing medical zombies. Blurred lines and human objects : the zombie art of George Pfau / Sarah Juliet Lauro
Open up a few zombie brains : objectivity, medical visuality, and brain imaging in the zombie autopsies / Lorenzo Servitje
The anorexic as zombie witness : illness and recovery in Katie Green's Lighter than my shadow / Dan Smith.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780271077116
0271077115
9780271077123
0271077123
OCLC:
951075051

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