The Walking Med - Zombies and the Medical Image (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Graphic Medicine
Release date:	October 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Lorenzo Servitje • Sherryl Vint
Foreword by:	Steven C Schlozman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-07711-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General
LSN:	0-271-07711-5
Barcode:	9780271077116

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