Body, Soul, and Comics
Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine
$221.88
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2026
Summary
Body, Soul, and Comics: Graphic Religion and Graphic Medicine follows 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.
Though often seen as opposites—spiritual versus scientific—relig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781496862266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1496862260 |
| Author: | A. David Lewis |
| Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Imprint: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
A. David Lewis
A. David Lewis is associate professor of English and health humanities at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). Lewis is also an Eisner Award nominee (2015) and judge (2023) as well as coeditor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels and Muslim Superheroes: Comics, Islam, and Representation. A founder of library collections at both Boston University and MCPHS, Lewis focuses his teaching and research on the depictions of cancer and of loneliness in comic books and graphic novels. He is inaugural coeditor of the Graphic Medicine Review journal and the acclaimed author of such comics as The Lone and Level Sands and the one hundredth anniversary comics adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
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