Published February, 2020
By Adam Warren, Martha Few, Zeb Tortorici and Nina M. Scott
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Explores the history of the postmortem cesarean operation, which was performed in order to extract the fetus and save its soul through baptism. Examines accounts of the operation from across the Spanish empire in the eighteenth century.

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Published December, 2019
By Kelly Pender
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Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.

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Published October, 2019
By Benjamin Dix and Lindsay Pollock
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A graphic novel documenting the turmoil of a family trapped in the crossfire between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers during the country's civil war.

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Published May, 2019
By Judith Cohen Margolis
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Through drawings, paintings, and poetic, prayerful affirmations grounded firmly in the Jewish experience, the author offers a creative response to her mother's final illness and death.

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Published October, 2018
By Kelly Pender
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Advocates a conversation around the genetic risk for breast and ovarian cancers that focuses less on choice and more on care. Offers a new set of conceptual starting points for understanding what is at stake with a BRCA diagnosis and what the focus on choice obstructs from view.

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Published September, 2018
By Olivier Kugler
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Documents in graphic novel format the experiences of Syrian refugees housed in camps in Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, France, Germany, Switzerland, and England. Based on interviews and photographs by the author during his work as Communication Officer for the organization Doctors Without Borders.

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Published May, 2018
By Jenell Johnson and Susan Merrill Squier
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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A comics anthology that illustrates the complicated and multiple experiences of human reproduction and explores comics within the growing field of graphic medicine.

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Published March, 2018
By Amy Koerber
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Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.

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Published March, 2018
By Amy Koerber
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Examines the rhetorical activity that preceded the early twentieth-century emergence of the word hormone and the impact of this word on expert understandings of women's health.

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Published October, 2017
By Everett Hamner
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An interdisciplinary exploration of how genetic engineering is transforming our narratives about the core of human personhood, and how those narratives are shaping official policies.

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