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INTRODUCTION: But I Don’t Want to Cure Cancer
SECTION 1: Bodies, Cancer, and Death
Chapter One: The Body is the Story: Emploting Bodies and Cancer
Chapter Two: Death and Cancer: Weeding a Tangled Garden
SECTION 2: Cancer, Power, and Responsibility: Exploring Four Superhero Stories
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN MARVEL
Chapter Three: This Whole Business of Death: Cancer and the Enduring Death of Captain Marvel
EDITOR’S NOTE: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: REMEDY AND POISON
Chapter Four: Cure as Poison: The Superhero’s Moral Battle as Paradox
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE MIGHTY THOR
Chapter Five: When Cancer is a Fatal Opportunity
EDITOR’S NOTE: THE DESPICABLE DEADPOOL
Chapter Six: Welcome to the freak show!: Deadpool and Perpetual Remission
SECTION 3: Conclusions and Data
Conclusion: How Better to Achieve that Object
APPENDIX I: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer but did not die of it
APPENDIX II: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer and died from it
APPENDIX III: List of Marvel characters who have had a form of cancer and died from either attempting to cure their cancer or destroy their enemies before succumbing to it
APPENDIX IV: Chart of cancer deaths by decade
APPENDIX V: List of DC characters who have had cancer
APPENDIX VI: List of DC characters with an unnamed terminal condition
APPENDIX VII: Chart of DC cancer and terminal condition by decade
WORKS CITED