Cancer and the Comics: Graphic Narratives and Biolegitimate Lives
| Autor: | Juliet McMullin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060101 anthropology
business.industry Anthropology Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Comics Meaningful life 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Aesthetics Argument 0601 history and archaeology Narrative 030212 general & internal medicine Sociology Biomedical technology business The Imaginary |
| Zdroj: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 30:149-167 |
| ISSN: | 0745-5194 |
| Popis: | Cancer graphic narratives, I argue, are part of a medical imaginary that includes representations of difference and biomedical technology that engage Fassin's (2009) concept of biolegitimacy. Framed in three parts, the argument first draws on discourses about cancer graphic narratives from graphic medicine scholars and authors to demonstrate a construction of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical embrace. Finally, I consider biosociality within the context of this imaginary and the construction of a meaningful life. Autobiographical graphic narrative as a creative genre that seeks to give voice to individual illness experiences in the context of biomedicine raises anthropological questions about the interplay between the ordinary and biolegitmate. Cancer graphic narratives deconstruct the big events to demonstrate the ordinary ways that a life constructed as different becomes valued through access to medical technologies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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