{"product_id":"metaphors-of-mental-illness-in-sweetha-saji-9781032102092","title":"Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine","description":"\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\u003e\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\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sweetha Saji, Sathyaraj Venkatesan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032102098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032102092\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d","brand":"Sweetha Saji","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44127803179263,"sku":"9781032102092","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53933796-eb04-4f20-8dd5-0e4a4ea38657.jpg?v=1687455328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphors-of-mental-illness-in-sweetha-saji-9781032102092","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}