Sick jokes

Visual histories of humour, health and the body

AvChristine Slobogin,Katie Snow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

This volume examines the role that visual humour has played and continues to play in contexts of health, medicine and the body. Throughout the modern era, artists, critics, patients and healthcare professionals have visualised medical jokes, or depicted medicalised bodies or scenes, in humorous or satirical ways. These materials do practical and emotional work for varied stakeholders, turning fears and uncertainties around the body and medicine into digestible, and fully visible, jokes. Looking at sources from Europe and the United States where art, medicine and comedy collide, this volume shows how visual culture offers a particularly embodied - and yet oftentimes comfortably removed - perspective on everyday and exceptional experiences of health, illness and the body. The visual humour analysed in this volume provides a critical and colourful account of bodily representation, medical treatments, public health communications, injury, addiction, disfigurement, disease, disability, sex and death.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-22
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Histories of Medicine
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526187970

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Christine Slobogin, Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics, University of Rochester Medical CenterKatie Snow, Research Fellow, University College Dublin Laura Cowley, Wellcome Trust postgraduate, Birkbeck, University of London

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Pathologies and power in print1 ‘Uncorking' Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture - Callum D. Smith2 Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture - Rebecca Whiteley3 ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards - Georgia HairePart II: Dying laughing: Death, disfigurement, disease and disability4 Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour - Allison Morehead5 Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique - Christine Slobogin6 The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News - Jo Michael Rezes7 Irony, assisted dying and The Disabled Avant-Garde - Laura CowleyPart III: Comical Health Communications8 ‘Doctor, are you speaking in tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey - Jeffrey S. Reznick9 Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s - Peder Clark10 Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics - Soha Bayoumi