The hero’s beautiful death: body, cancer and medicalization in comics’ narratives

The hero’s beautiful death: body, cancer and medicalization in comics’ narratives

In this article, we study the fabrication of the social imaginary about cancer represented in superhero comics. The goal is to discuss the emergence of cancer in media culture. It raises the question of the medical imperative as a producer of knowledge and practices of body control in fictional narr...

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Main Authors: Marcos Fábio Medeiros Vieira, Denise da Costa Oliveira Siqueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) 2021-03-01
Series:RECIIS
Subjects:
histórias em quadrinhos
medicalização
midiatização
corpo
câncer.
Online Access:https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1998

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