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Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780367443009 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 09/02/2020 |
Pages: | 120 |
Product dimensions: | 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Sathyaraj Venkatesan is an Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). His research concentrates on illness narratives, graphic medicine, and literature and medicine. He is the author of four books and more than eighty research articles. His most recent volume of co-edited essays is titled The Idea and Practice of Reading (2018).
Table of Contents
IntroductionEating Disorders, Biocultures, and Graphic Medicine
Why Graphic Medicine?
Overview of the Book
1 A Prologue to Graphic Medicine
Medical Humanities: Towards the Humanization of Medical Science
Narrative Medicine: Understanding the Ordeals of Illness
Spectacles of Suffering: Representation of Illness across Media
Comics Medium and Healthcare
Comics, Women, and the Counterculture
Graphic Medicine: Definition and Scope
Conclusion
2 Clinical Evolution of Eating Disorders and the Rise of the Biocultures
Chronicles of Starvation: A Cultural History of Eating Disorders
The Middle Ages: Fasting Saints and Miracle Maidens
From Miracle to Madness and Hysteria
Eating Disorders: A Medical Introduction
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating and EDNOS
Pitfalls in the Popular Explanatory Models of Eating Disorders
The Biocultural Model
Tracing the Footprints of Culture in Science
Graphic Medicine and the Biocultures
Conclusion
3 Warped Femininities: Understanding the Corporeal Nexus of Anorexia and Culture
The Ideal Female Body as a Cultural Construct
Anorexia Nervosa: A Biocultural Approach
"At That Time, Nobody Considered It": Anorexia and Familial Pressure
"Neil! You Look Like a Man!": Body Shaming and Anorexia
"As Long as I’m Thin… I’ll Be Invincible:": Media and Thinspiration
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
4 Subjective Incarnations of Anorexia: Creative Metaphors and Graphic Externalization
Comics, Metaphors, and Externalization
Graphic Medicine and the Iconography of Illness
"I’m Tyranny, Your Other Self": The Metaphor of Self-Oppression
"My Ed—so Big and STRONG": Relationship Metaphors in Anorexia Nervosa
Dark Clouds of Despair: The Metaphor of Pervasiveness
Epitomizing the Indefinable: The Power of Comics Medium
Conclusion
Acknolwedgment
5 From Abjection to Anorexia: Eating Disorders and the Horrors of the Female Body
Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders
Abjection: Origin, and Popular Definitions
Abjection and Anorexia: Theoretical Interventions of Megan Warin
"I Feel Disgusting": Menstruation and Abjection in Lighter Than My Shadow
"I Hate This. I Hate Me": Menstruation and Abjection in Tyranny
"I’m Disgusting": Self-Disgust and Sexual Abuse
Conclusion
Conclusion: Towards an Alternative Understanding of Eating Disorders