Walking Med

Zombies and the Medical Image

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the return of the repressed violence of colonialism, or the embodiment of a culture obsessed with consumerism. Increasingly, they are understood and depicted as a medicalized phenomenon: creatures transformed by disease into a threatening vector of contagion.The Walking Med brings together scholars from across the disciplines of cultural studies, medical education, medical anthropology, and art history to explore what new meanings the zombie might convey in this context. These scholars consider a range of forms—from comics disseminated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to graphic novels and television shows such as The Walking Dead—to show how interrogations of the zombie metaphor can reveal new perspectives within the medical humanities. An unprecedented forum for dialogue between cultural studies of zombies and graphic medicine, The Walking Med is an invaluable contribution to both areas of study, as well as a potent commentary on one of popular culture’s most invasive and haunting figures.In addition to the editors, the contributors are Tully Barnett, Gerry Canavan, Daniel George, Michael Green, Ben Kooyman, Sarah Juliet Lauro, Juliet McMullin, Kari Nixon, Steven Schlozman, Dan Smith, and Darryl Wilkinson.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGraphic Medicine
Antal sidor264
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
MedarbetareStevenC. Schlozman
ISBN9780271077123

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Lorenzo Servitje is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside, and the coeditor of Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory.Sherryl Vint is Professor and Director of the Speculative Fiction and Cultures of Science program at the University of California, Riverside, editor of Science Fiction and Cultural Theory: A Reader, and an editor of the journals Science Fiction Studies and Science Fiction Film and Television.

Table of ContentsForewordSteve SchlozmanPrefaceLorenzo Servitje and Sherryl VintIntroduction Lorenzo ServitjeDiagnosing Zombie Culture1.Don’t Point that Gun at My Mum: Geriatric ZombiesGerry Canavan 2.Viral Virulence, Postmodern Zombies, and the American Healthcare Enterprise in the Antibiotic AgeKari Nixon3.“The Cure Has Killed Us All”: Dramatizing Medical Ethics through Zombie and Period Fiction Tropes in The New DeadwardiansTully Barnet and Ben KooymanReading the Zombie Metaphor4.The Walking Med: Zombies, Comics, and Medical EducationMichael Green, Daniel George, and Darryl Wilkinson5.Zombie Toxins: Abjection and Cancer’s chemicalsJuliet McMullin6.Administering the Crisis: Zombies and Public Health in the 28 Days Later Comic SeriesSherryl VintVisualizing Medical Zombies7.Blurred Lines and Human Objects: The Zombie Art of George PfauSarah Juliet Lauro8.Open Up a Few Zombie Brains: Objectivity, Medical Visuality, Brain Imaging in The Zombie AutopsiesLorenzo Servitje9.The Anorexic as Zombie Witness: Illness and Recovery in Katie Green’s Lighter Than My ShadowDan Smith