Gender, eating disorders, and graphic medicine /

"Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine leaps past the prevalent notions on eating disorder, and contributes to the developing corpus of affective knowledge on eating disorders among women through comics and graphic medicine"--

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Main Authors: Peter, Anu (Author), Venkatesan, Sathyaraj (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2021
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Summary:"Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine leaps past the prevalent notions on eating disorder, and contributes to the developing corpus of affective knowledge on eating disorders among women through comics and graphic medicine"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 111 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781003087564
1003087566
9781000170986
1000170985
9781000170924
1000170926
9781000170863
1000170861
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2020).
Biographical or Historical Data:Anu Mary Peter was a Jawaharlal Nehru doctoral research fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). She is currently an independent health humanities researcher. Her research articles have appeared in various Web of Science/Scopus indexed journals such as Health: An International Journal for Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, among others. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is an Associate Professor of English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). His research concentrates on illness narratives, graphic medicine, and literature and medicine. He is the author of four books and more than eighty research articles. His most recent volume of co-edited essays istitled The Idea and Practice of Reading (2018).