{"product_id":"metaphors-of-mental-illness-in-graphic-medicine-hardcover","title":"Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSweetha Saji\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSathyaraj Venkatesan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this context, by using Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this study uncovers the broad spectrum of the mentally ills' experiences, a relatively undertheorised area in medical humanities. The aim is to demonstrate that mentally ill people are often represented as either grotesquely exaggerated or overly romanticised across diverse media and biomedical discourses. Further, they have been disparaged as emotionally drained and unreasonable individuals, incapable of active social engagements and against the healthy\/sane society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study also aims to unsettle the sanity\/insanity binary and its related patterns of fixed categories of normal\/abnormal, which depersonalise the mentally ill by critically analysing seven graphic narratives on mental illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSweetha Saji\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru. Her areas of research interest include Graphic Medicine and Medical Humanities. She has published over ten research articles in SCI and Scopus indexed journals. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for \u003ci\u003eJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBMJ Journal of Medical Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e. She has presented over 12 research papers at International and National conferences organized by prestigious institutions including the University of Granada, Spain, JNU New Delhi, and IIT Madras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSathyaraj Venkatesan is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). He is the author of 6 books and over 90 research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and culture studies disciplines. He is most recently the co-author of \u003ci\u003eInfertility Comics and Graphic Medicine \u003c\/i\u003e(2021) and \u003ci\u003eIndia Retold \u003c\/i\u003e(2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51785655517472,"sku":"9781032102092","price":118.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0ad260bef8eb02e833d1c3793e466e50.webp?v=1780618165","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/metaphors-of-mental-illness-in-graphic-medicine-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}