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The walking med : zombies and the medical image / edited by Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint ; foreword by Steven Schlozman.
- Title
- The walking med : zombies and the medical image / edited by Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint ; foreword by Steven Schlozman.
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xxiii, 236 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Graphic medicine
- Uniform Title
- Graphic medicine
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Graphic medicine (Comics)
- Graphic novels
- Nonfiction comics
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780271077116
- 0271077115
- 9780271077123
- 0271077123
- LCCN
- ^^2016025161
- OCLC
- 951075051
- SCSB-11700012
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library