{"product_id":"body-soul-and-comics-graphic-religion-and-graphic-medicine-paperback-softback-9781496862273","title":"Body, Soul, and Comics; Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496862273","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBody, Soul, and Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGraphic Religion and Graphic Medicine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eA. David Lewis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496862273\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e188 pages, 47 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.25 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBody, Soul, and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal and thorough new exploration of body\/comics themes, a meeting of the fields of religion and medicine through comics. Lewis is a poet. While it’s readable and clear, the language is often beautiful, and the points, while rigorous, are theological in import.\" - Elizabeth Rae Coody, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Women in Comics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"By forging a compelling connection between comics, religion, and graphic medicine,\u003ci\u003e Body, Soul, and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e opens an original line of inquiry. It demonstrates how visual storytelling can mediate questions of suffering, care, belief, and embodiment in ways that are both ethically attentive and critically nuanced. A significant contribution to health humanities and graphic medicine scholarship, this book will reshape how we read graphic illness narratives within spiritual, religious, and cultural contexts.\" - Sathyaraj Venkatesan, professor of English at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, engaging, provocative, out-of-the-box study of two crucial fields and their perhaps-surprising overlap. In a work both scholarly and personal, A. David Lewis shows us why he’s one of the most dynamic writers in comics studies today. An important contribution to multiple disciplines.\" - Hillary Chute, Distinguished Professor of English and Art   Design at Northeastern University and author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Comics? From Underground to Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Body, Soul, and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e offers important contributions to narrower fields like graphic medicine and graphic religion and wider fields like comics studies and the health humanities and has the rare quality of appeal for both students and masters of its subjects. Its true gift, however, lies in its complication of the very scholarly binary its subtitle emphasizes. Blending scholarship, memoir, and a welcome taste of activism, Lewis imagines a future where the oft-discussed transdisciplinary nature of a field like graphic medicine expands further, to a place where the whole of human experience is considered in comics.\" - Matthew Noe, lead collection and knowledge management librarian at Countway Library, Harvard Medical School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With impressive scholarship and vulnerability, in a refreshingly clear and personal tone, A. David Lewis convincingly celebrates the full range of human experience—physical and spiritual—in the comic form.\" - MK Czerwiec, author of \u003ci\u003eMenopause: A Comic Treatment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBody, Soul, and Comics: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraphic Religion and Graphic Medicine \u003c\/i\u003efollows A. David Lewis’s unique scholarly journey through graphic religion and graphic medicine, exploring how comics intersect with healthcare, clinical practice, spirituality, patient experience, and belief. Drawing on more than two decades of academic research, Lewis reframes both fields through the distinct narrative and visual language of comics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Though often seen as opposites—spiritual versus scientific—religion and medicine share concerns with selfhood, community, personal well-being, and transformation. Through comics, Lewis reveals these shared concerns and examines how selfhood, identity, and embodiment emerge through visual storytelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Blending scholarship with autobiography, Lewis weaves personal moments—a religious conversion, experiences with anxiety, and academic work within a healthcare setting—into a broader analysis of representation and meaning in comic books. His account resists the traditional divide between theory and lived experience, grounding abstract ideas in the personal and the visual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBody, Soul, and Comics\u003c\/i\u003e is both a call for disciplinary reunification and a meditation on how comics themselves bridge seemingly disparate realms—text and image, body and spirit, illness and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607745655064,"sku":"9781496862273","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/body-soul-and-comics-graphic-religion-and-graphic-medicine-paperback-softback-9781496862273","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}