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Disease as Framework

January 12, 2017

Medical historians, medical anthropologists, and other scholars concerned with a plethora of topics have written works centered around specific diseases; what comprises their arguments, evidence, and conclusions, however, varies greatly and begs the question, what exactly is the history of a disease, and how have scholars employed disease as a schema through which they analyze … More Disease as Framework

January 12, 2017

Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us, S. Lochlann Jain Part memoir part cultural analysis, Malignant tries to untangle the complicated relationship between cancer, institutional America, and people within and without the disease’s enigmatic aura. Using evidence from popular culture (ad campaigns, cartoons, and artwork), Jain elucidates how cancer is (mis)understood; the way that American medical and … More Malignant