| Tumor Contributor(s): Leahy, Anna (Author), Schaberg, Christopher (Editor), Bogost, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 150132330X ISBN-13: 9781501323300 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues |
| Dewey: 616.994 |
| LCCN: 2016055320 |
| Series: Object Lessons |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. One in two men and one in three women will develop invasive cancer. Tumors have the power to redefine identities and change how people live with one another. Tumor takes readers on an intellectual adventure around the attitudes that shape how humans do scientific research, treat cancer, and talk about disease, treatment, and death. With poetic verve and acuity, Anna Leahy explores why and how tumors happen, how we think and talk about them, and how we try to rid ourselves of them. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bogost, Ian: - Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. Bogost is author or co-author of seven books: Unit Operations (2006), Persuasive Games (2007), Racing the Beam ( 2009), Newsgames (2010), How To Do Things with Videogames (2011), Alien Phenomenology (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and 10 PRINT CHR (205.5+RND(1)); Goto 10 (2012). Bogost also creates videogames that cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His game A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival.Schaberg, Christopher: - Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (Ian Bogost) of the series Object Lessons. |