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The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image

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Description for The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image Hardback. Zombies the Medical Image. Num Pages: NO. BIC Classification: DS. .

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271077116
SKU
V9780271077116
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Lorenzo Servitje
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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image
“Beautifully presented, with numerous illustrations and figures, this collection will make the reader approach the zombie with fresh eyes.” —Andrew Peter Godfrey The Comics Grid “This collection takes a most innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the very prevalent cultural phenomenon of the zombie. Instead of retracing conventional methodological pathways, the editors have done a remarkable job in guiding their ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image


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