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This book examines the emergence of a new normal that has structured the lived experiences of individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic through a close reading of graphic medical texts from both digital and print sources. Interdisciplinary in scope and integrating theoretical insights from graphic medicine, health humanities, literary theory, and comics studies, this book scrutinises…
Dementia and Graphic Medicine explores how graphic medicine–through memoirs by caregivers and families–offers nuanced understandings and humane representations of individuals with dementia that restore their personhood, dignity, and agency. Dementia, a neurodegenerative condition, often reduces individuals to their impairments, overlooking their personhood. This book challenges this, critiquing the influence of mind-body dualism, biomedicine on personhood,…
This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence.
This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence.
Drawing on the findings from their biocultural investigation of eating disorders among women using graphic memoirs, Venkatesan and Anu discusses how graphic medicine offers an ingress into women’s subjective experience of eating disorders.
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