Tag Archives: cancer

The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6

Lewis, A. D. (2022). The Body Politic: A Review of Cells at Work!, vols. 1-6. BMJ Medical Humanities Blog. Retrieved from https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2022/03/30/the-body-politic-a-review-of-cells-at-work-vols-1-6/ ABSTRACT: In transforming the body’s routines and responses into a manga narrative, Cells at Work! fashions a social system for its cellular characters.1 That system, notably, more resembles a socialist autocracy than the democracy familiar to… Read More »

The Many Fictions of Illness: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer

Ferraro A. J. (2021). The Many Fictions of Illness: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer. Literature and medicine, 39(2), 227–248. https://doi-org.ezproxymcp.flo.org/10.1353/lm.2021.0022 ABSTRACT: Recent studies of fictionality within narrative theory have emphasized the permeability between global fictions and nonfictions. That is, global nonfictions often deploy elements of local fictionality without compromising their global commitments. This paper… Read More »

Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer.

McMullin, J., Rushing, S., Sueyoshi, M., & Salman J. (2021). Reanimating the Body: Comics Creation as an Embodiment of Life with Cancer. Cult Med Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s11013-020-09703-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33403497. ABSTRACT: Cancer is regarded as a disease that redefines an individual’s life and relationships. The medicalization and reclamation of the individual’s sense… Read More »

Cancer Gets Complicated: PW Talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu

Wurth, E. T. (2020). Cancer gets complicated: PW talks with Kimiko Tobimatsu. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved from https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/84424-cancer-gets-complicated-pw-talks-with-kimiko-tobimatsu.html ABSTRACT: In Tobimatsu’s graphic memoir, Kimiko Does Cancer (Arsenal Pulp, Nov.), the young, queer Asian-Canadian lawyer navigates a breast cancer diagnosis and the “cancer warrior” support group culture.

How Do Techniques from Comics Narratives of Deafness Create a Sense of Disorientation and Potential Alienation that Reveal the Role of Sound in Graphic Medicine?

Lewis, A. D. (2019, April 9). How do techniques from comics narratives of deafness create a sense of disorientation and potential alienation that reveal the role of sound in graphic medicine? In Seeing Sounds / Hearing Pictures – A Round Table on Sound & Comics. The Middle Spaces. Retrieved from https://themiddlespaces.com/2019/04/09/seeing-sounds-part-one/ ABSTRACT: These rhetorical innovations… Read More »

Deadpool: Using Pop Culture for Cancer Advocacy

Lokady, I. (2016). Deadpool: using pop culture for cancer advocacy. The Lancet 17: 285. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(16)00094-2/fulltext ABSTRACT: In a rather unexpected twist to the marketing campaign surrounding the film Deadpool, a series of public-service advertisements were released in Jan, 2016, starring the titled main character advising fans about testicular cancer screening. The advertisements were produced in collaboration… Read More »