The walking med
Subtitle: zombies and the medical image
By: edited by Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint ; foreword by Steven Schlozman
Series: Graphic medicine; Graphic medicine
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780271077116; 9780271077123
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social aspects; Zombies in popular culture; Social medicine; Diseases
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Don't point that gun at my mum : geriatric zombies / Gerry Canavan; title: Viral virulence, postmodern zombies, and the American healthcare enterprise in the antibiotic age / Kari Nixon; title: "The cure has killed us all" : dramatizing medical ethics through zombie and period fiction tropes in the new deadwardians / Tully Barnett and Ben Kooyman; title: The walking med : zombies, comics, and medical education / Michael Green, Daniel George, and Darryl Wilkinson; title: Zombie toxins : abjection and cancer's chemicals / Juliet McMullin; title: Administering the crisis : zombies and public health in the 28 days later comic series / Sherryl Vint; title: Blurred lines and human objects : the zombie art of George Pfau / Sarah Juliet Lauro; title: Open up a few zombie brains : objectivity, medical visuality, and brain imaging in the zombie autopsies / Lorenzo Servitje; title: The anorexic as zombie witness : illness and recovery in Katie Green's Lighter than my shadow / Dan Smith.