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SUMMARY:Colloquium Series: Sherine Hamdy: “What can comics offer medical anthropology?”
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DESCRIPTION:\nLocation: McMillan Hall\, G052\n\n\n\nComics and graphic narratives effectively embody people's experiences and elicit bodily reactions in their readers. And yet\, medical anthropologists\, by and large\, have shied away from communicating their insights via sensory-rich media like comics\, despite being attuned to the body's processes and its attunements. Hamdy contrasts this hesitance in the academic social sciences to take comics seriously as a form of knowledge\, with the ways in which medical schools and medical journals have embraced graphic narratives. \n\n\n\nWhy have the social sciences remained generally iconophobic\, while academic medicine has recognized the potential for comics to provide insight into medical encounters? Hamdy will present numerous examples of graphic medicine\, and in particular Arab women's comics that break taboos about illness\, and demand the visibility of their bodies and basic rights to bodily autonomy. They will conclude by offering some ideas into how medical anthropology and comics could provide useful frameworks for one another.\n\n\n\nSherine Hamdy is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. Her research interests focus on bioethics\, medical anthropology\, comics\, Arab world\, Egypt\, SWANA diaspora in North America\, narrative\, ethno-fiction.\n\n\n\nFree and open to the public.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more here\n\n\n\n\n\n
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