McMullin Juliet
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.
Med Anthropol Q. 2016 Jun;30(2):149-67. doi: 10.1111/maq.12172. Epub 2016 Mar 31.
Cancer graphic narratives, I argue, are part of a medical imaginary that includes representations of difference and biomedical technology that engage Fassin's (2009) concept of biolegitimacy. Framed in three parts, the argument first draws on discourses about cancer graphic narratives from graphic medicine scholars and authors to demonstrate a construction of universal suffering. Second, I examine tropes of hope and difference as a biotechnical embrace. Finally, I consider biosociality within the context of this imaginary and the construction of a meaningful life. Autobiographical graphic narrative as a creative genre that seeks to give voice to individual illness experiences in the context of biomedicine raises anthropological questions about the interplay between the ordinary and biolegitmate. Cancer graphic narratives deconstruct the big events to demonstrate the ordinary ways that a life constructed as different becomes valued through access to medical technologies.
我认为，癌症图文叙事是医学想象的一部分，其中包括对差异的呈现以及涉及法辛（2009年）生物合法性概念的生物医学技术。该论点分为三个部分，首先借鉴了图文医学学者和作者关于癌症图文叙事的论述，以证明普遍苦难的建构。其次，我将希望与差异的比喻视为一种生物技术的接纳。最后，我在这种想象的背景下以及有意义生活的建构中考虑生物社会性。自传体图文叙事作为一种创造性体裁，试图在生物医学背景下表达个人疾病经历，这引发了关于平凡与生物合法之间相互作用的人类学问题。癌症图文叙事解构重大事件，以展示通过获得医疗技术而使被建构为不同的生活变得有价值的平凡方式。
