{"product_id":"keywordskeyimages-in-graphic-medicine-9780271100357","title":"Keywords\/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book invites readers to explore the field of graphic medicine through a new concept: \"keywords\/keyimages.\" Coined by the editors to reflect the unique combination of words and images in comics, this term offers a fresh way to understand how graphic narratives communicate experiences of health and illness. Rather than defining the field, the book aims to demonstrate its range and complexity, offering a visual and verbal resource that reveals the methods, concepts, and politics shaping graphic medicine today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection brings together thirty-six contributions from comics artists, scholars, healthcare professionals, and patients, each focused on a single keyword\/keyimage. Organized into five thematic sections--practice, pedagogy, process, personal\/autobiographical, and politics--the book guides readers through the formal elements of comics, teaching strategies, creative processes, personal storytelling, and the broader health politics at work in the field. With visual examples alongside critical analysis, the volume encourages a \"both\/and\" approach to reading: seeing words and images as interdependent, working simultaneously and sequentially to convey meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned as a resource for classroom teaching and independent study, \u003ci\u003eKeywords\/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine \u003c\/i\u003eoffers students, scholars, and practitioners a dynamic introduction to the study of health narratives in comics. It invites interdisciplinary exploration while providing practical tools for analyzing, teaching, and creating graphic medicine texts, making it a valuable contribution to courses in comics studies, visual culture, health humanities, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Diedrich \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIllness Politics and Hashtag Activism\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTreatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBriana Martino\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor and Chair of Communications and affiliated faculty in Race, Gender, and Culture in the Gwen Ifill School of Media, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Simmons University. Their research has been published in \u003ci\u003eMAI: Feminism and Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52158619943186,"sku":"9780271100357","price":137.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c13071a-2cd7-43c6-a8f2-8aaf82f80c7f.jpg?v=1774970164","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/keywordskeyimages-in-graphic-medicine-9780271100357","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}