Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 The Reflecting Physician 7
5. 2 Assembling a Shared Life in Anders Nilsen’s Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow 23
6. 3 Ways of Looking Reading PathoGraphics 39
7. 4 The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain 59
8. 5 The Tightrope to Equilibrium Parkinson’s Disease in Literature and Comics 74
9. 6 “Her Leg” Chris Ware’s Body of Work 100
10. 7 Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons 115
11. 8 Subverting Stigma Community Building in Serial Comics 135
12. 9 Psychosis Blues Schizophrenia, Comics, and Collaboration 153
13. 10 The Quickening 173
14. 11 Interview with Stef Lenk on The Quickening 178
15. 12 Desire Paths PathoGraphics and Transgenerational Trauma 187
16. 13 Scaling Graphic Medicine The Porous Pathography, a New Kind of Illness Narrative 205
17. Contributors 227
18. Index 231