Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine - Hardcover
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Drawing on the findings from their biocultural investigation of eating disorders among women using graphic memoirs, Venkatesan and Anu discusses how graphic medicine offers an ingress into women's subjective experience of eating disorders.
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 is titled The Idea and Practice of Reading (2018).
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