{"product_id":"lissa-a-story-about-medical-promise-friendship-and-revolution-paperback-softback-9781487593476","title":"Lissa; A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487593476","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLissa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSherine Hamdy (Author), Coleman Nye (Author), Caroline Brewer (Illustrated by), Sarula Bao (Illustrated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487593476\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 November 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, B\u0026amp;W illustrations throughout\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.49 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\"Revolution is as intimate as family and as mammoth as regime change in this graphic novel focused on the 2011 Tahrir Square demonstrations. This is the book's greatest strength: its belief in decency, even amidst violence and trauma. Its hopeful mood is mirrored by the book's rounded, flowing visuals: Bandages flutter like hair ribbons, water sluices down Anna's surgical scars, and Layla's eyes are wide as she tends to the grievously wounded. This is a chronicle of conflict, to be sure, but it is also a tribute to persistence of friendship and the power of a people united.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Whether you read \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e to educate yourself about health issues or research methods, or you just want to find out what happens to Layla and Anna, this graphic novel shows the huge and still untapped potential of comics for use in medicine and global health.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cem\u003eThe Lancet\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I have nothing but admiration for this book. The story is compelling—even a page turner. Moreover, it is informative, historically and culturally situated and uplifting—or, at least, it ends on a hopeful note—teaching hard truths, or glimpses of them, in an accessible and digestible way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Shelly Errington, \u003cem\u003eAnthropology Now\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e, Hamdy, Nye, their artists Bao, Brewer, and Parenteau show us how we can collaboratively transform anthropology\u0026amp;#x2019;s ways of seeing and communicating depth and nuance in our ethnographies. As the first publication in the new ethnoGRAPHIC series from University of Toronto Press, Lissa sets a high bar and positive tone for what we can expect from this series. Like most great books, Lissa allows the reader to bring different meanings and needs to the book, engaging them in multiple conversations that explore the ways in which we are connected.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSomatosphere\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The complexity of the various ethical and medical dilemmas gives the work depth and pathos without making the arguments appear didactic. It is indeed the ethnographic research—the minor characters and their voices—that give the book its special strength.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Parismita Singh, graphic novelist, \u003cem\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With the University of Toronto\u0026amp;#x2019;s imprimatur and its ethnoGRAPHIC series, surely there are no more excuses not to expand what counts as professional, promotion-worthy ethnography. And \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fantastic model of how to proceed. Congratulations to its visionary authors and editors.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Lochlann Jain, \u003cem\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"…offers slices of contrasting Egyptian and American biomedicines and uses the characters\u0026amp;#x2019; dilemmas to pry open the contradictions within and between these medical systems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Stacy Leigh Pigg, \u003cem\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e is an eminently teachable text, and it was clearly designed with the classroom in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e - Christine Sargent, \u003cem\u003eAnthropology Book Forum\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The storytelling in LISSA is innovative in the sense that it shows people\u0026amp;#x2019;s lives without resorting to broad stroke generalizations. The novel also nicely covers key aspects of cyber-activism, social media and texting - tools that were instrumental in communicating during the revolution.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Eduard Cousin \u003cp\u003e\"Through its story of intercultural friendship and its backstory of international and interdisciplinary collaboration, \u003ci\u003eLissa\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to take an unusual – fictional, graphic- and highly original path to the heart of the ethnographic encounter. It is a journey I am excited to take with my students, and I look forward to seeing the next titles in the ethnographic series.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Martha Radice, Dalhousie University (Anthropologica 60, 2018) \u003cp\u003e\"As the debut of a new editorial series (ethnoGRAPHIC) that aims at promoting long-form ethnographic accounts into comic form, \u003ci\u003eLissa\u003c\/i\u003e is without a doubt an editorial break-through that helps to bring balance to an otherwise dominantly textual field.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Kim Tondeur (\u003cem\u003e Anthropos\u003c\/em\u003e) \"Lissa intertwines academic knowledge and storytelling, Egypt and the United States, as well as the private sphere in which individuals\/families make medical decisions and the public sphere in which health care systems operate, governments govern (or fail to do so), and citizens rebel against governments. The outcome, as academic and non-academic reviewers unanimously attest, is a highly informative yet readable and engrossing book.\" - Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw (\u003cem\u003eLublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature\u003c\/em\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\u003eAs young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultural, and religious divides. Years later, Anna learns that she may carry the hereditary cancer gene responsible for her mother's death. Meanwhile, Layla's family is faced with a difficult decision about kidney transplantation. Their friendship is put to the test when these medical crises reveal stark differences in their perspectives...until revolutionary unrest in Egypt changes their lives forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book in a new series, \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e brings anthropological research to life in comic form, combining scholarly insights and accessible, visually-rich storytelling to foster greater understanding of global politics, inequalities, and solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword: \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e and the Transduction of Ethnography by George E. Marcus \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I Cairo \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II Five Years Later \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III Revolution \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note About Page 235, Featuring the Art of Ganzeer \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: Reading \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e by Paul Karasik \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution \u003cbr\u003eAppendix II Creating \u003cem\u003eLissa\u003c\/em\u003e: Concepts, Collaborations, and Craft \u003cbr\u003eAppendix III Teaching Guide \u003cbr\u003eAppendix IV Key References and Further Reading\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653262209304,"sku":"9781487593476","price":17.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lissa-a-story-about-medical-promise-friendship-and-revolution-paperback-softback-9781487593476","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}