LISSA Graphic Novel A Story About Medical Promise Lissa is a graphic novel written by academics Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye and illustrated by artists Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer The complete graphic novel was released in 2017 as the debut title of the ethnoGRAPHIC series published by the University of Toronto Press The book is now available for order online Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and Through its story of intercultural friendship and its backstory of international and interdisciplinary collaboration Lissa 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 Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and Revolution is a graphic novel following two girls one American and one Egyptian as they grow up choose careers and lose family members Although the story is fictional it combines anthropological research about American and Egyptian healthcare cultures with the story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution Lissa A Story About Medical Promise Friendship and Lemke writes In this excerpt from Lissa A Story About Medical Promise Friendship and Revolution we encounter two young girls one Egyptian one American—childhood intimates who are navigating difficult circumstances from very different cultural perspectives Review – Lissa A story about medical promise friendship The parallel tales of the book’s subtitle – medical promise friendship and revolution – are told through two teenagers as they grow into adulthood The text is urgently crisp No dull filler conversations crowd the seamless integration and development of the themes of illness struggle and temporality which gain force through their juxtaposition Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and As 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 mothers death Meanwhile Laylas family is faced with a difficult decision about kidney transplantation PDF Download Lissa A Story About Medical Promise The book translates specifically scenic design practices which include processes like speculation materialization and iteration and applies them to ethnographic inquiry emphasizing both the value of design studio processes and designed field encounters Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and Lissa A Story about Medical Promise Friendship and Revolution Lissa brings anthropological research to life in comic form This powerful fictional story deftly bridges the experiences of two young womenone dealing with kidney failure and organ transplantation in Egypt and the other with breast cancer genetics and prevention in the US Lissa A Story About Medical Promise Friendship and Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye writers Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer art Marc Parenteau lettering Lissa A Story About Medical Promise Friendship and Revolution 2017 University of Toronto Press 302 pp £1299
Title : Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (ethnoGRAPHIC)
ISBN : 1487593473
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Number of Pages : 305
Author : Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye
Rating : 5.0
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