ABSTRACT
While most of the existing research favors either the biomedical or cultural model of illness, this book is an attempt to understand how graphic medicine could shed light on various underexplored triggers such as abjection and could provide a holistic phenomenological understanding of eating disorders in women using the biocultural explanatory model. Appropriately, the conclusion succinctly and lucidly draws together the findings of the preceding chapters while underscoring how graphic medicine is facilitating the much-needed reconfiguration of the popular understanding of eating disorders as mere psychological problems. Further, this chapter also reiterates how female graphic pathographers are equipped to add layers to the diverse biocultural meanings of women’s starvation using the comics medium.
