The Walking Med

Table of Contents

Foreword

Steve Schlozman

Preface

Lorenzo Servitje and Sherryl Vint

Introduction

Lorenzo Servitje

Diagnosing Zombie Culture

1. Don’t Point that Gun at My Mum: Geriatric Zombies

Gerry Canavan

2. Viral Virulence, Postmodern Zombies, and the American Healthcare Enterprise in the Antibiotic Age

Kari Nixon

3. “The Cure Has Killed Us All”: Dramatizing Medical Ethics through Zombie and Period Fiction Tropes in The New Deadwardians

Tully Barnet and Ben Kooyman

Reading the Zombie Metaphor

4. The Walking Med: Zombies, Comics, and Medical Education

Michael Green, Daniel George, and Darryl Wilkinson

5. Zombie Toxins: Abjection and Cancer’s chemicals

Juliet McMullin

6. Administering the Crisis: Zombies and Public Health in the 28 Days Later Comic Series

Sherryl Vint

Visualizing Medical Zombies

7. Blurred Lines and Human Objects: The Zombie Art of George Pfau

Sarah Juliet Lauro

8. Open Up a Few Zombie Brains: Objectivity, Medical Visuality, Brain Imaging in The Zombie Autopsies

Lorenzo Servitje

9. The Anorexic as Zombie Witness: Illness and Recovery in Katie Green’s Lighter Than My Shadow

Dan Smith

“The Walking Med shows, in no uncertain way, the power of interdisciplinary inquiry at the intersection of medical humanities, visual culture, and monster studies. This highly innovative and original collection illustrates how contemporary zombie narratives and images help us think of crises and opportunities in medicine and health care systems. As a whole, The Walking Med convincingly argues that zombies are powerful and necessary symbols of medicine and its politics.”

—Marina Levina, coeditor of Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader