Gender, eating disorders, and graphic medicine

Introduction

Eating Disorders, Biocultures, and Graphic Medicine

Why Graphic Medicine?

Overview of the Book

Medical Humanities: Towards the Humanization of Medical Science

Narrative Medicine: Understanding the Ordeals of Illness

Spectacles of Suffering: Representation of Illness across Media

Comics Medium and Healthcare

Comics, Women, and the Counterculture

Graphic Medicine: Definition and Scope

Conclusion

Chronicles of Starvation: A Cultural History of Eating Disorders

The Middle Ages: Fasting Saints and Miracle Maidens

From Miracle to Madness and Hysteria

Eating Disorders: A Medical Introduction

Anorexia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa

Binge Eating and EDNOS

Pitfalls in the Popular Explanatory Models of Eating Disorders

The Biocultural Model

Tracing the Footprints of Culture in Science

Graphic Medicine and the Biocultures

Conclusion

The Ideal Female Body as a Cultural Construct

Anorexia Nervosa: A Biocultural Approach

"At that time, nobody considered it": Anorexia and Familial Pressure

"Neil! You look like a man!": Body Shaming and Anorexia

"As long as I’m thin… I’ll be invincible:": Media and Thinspiration

Conclusion

Comics, Metaphors, and Externalization

Graphic Medicine and the Iconography of Illness

"I’m Tyranny, your other self": The Metaphor of Self-Oppression

"my Ed—so Big and STRONG": Relationship Metaphors

Dark Clouds of Despair: The Metaphor of Pervasiveness

Epitomizing the Indefinable: The Power of Comics Medium

Conclusion

Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders

Abjection: Origin, and Popular Definitions

Abjection and Anorexia: Theoretical Interventions of Megan Warin

"I feel disgusting": Menstruation, Abjection in Lighter Than My Shadow

"I hate this. I hate me": Menstruation and Abjection in Tyranny

"I’m disgusting": Self-Disgust and Sexual Abuse

Conclusion