Hipócrates y sus artificios
Enfermedad, medicina y narración en las literaturas y culturas hispánicas e hispanoamericanas
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Margherita Cannavacciuolo - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Maria Rita Consolaro - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Alice Favaro - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
This book explores the relationship between Hispanic and Hispanic American literatures, cultures, medicine, and illness. The collected essays that comprise this volume offer diverse perspectives and approaches, that enhance the topicality and relevance of the explored themes. On the one hand, the works draw attention to artistic expressions that use fantastic rhetoric, seeking to deepen the sense of the unknown by overcoming the boundaries of reality. Indeed, this aesthetic quest is inevitably intertwined with the sphere of illness and its potential healing. The perimeter of the human experience seems to fall into a doubtful and dim atmosphere. On the other hand, we also know that literature depicts the world in a realistic or mimetic manner. This approach has been considered in a way that engages with the fissures produced by the altered state of the subject. Moreover, an important part of this study is dedicated to non-hegemonic medical knowledge and practices belonging to indigenous and traditional cultures that firmly challenge Eurocentrism imposition that is apparently indisputable. Overall, we can conclude that this book poses a series of original suggestions that reveal the urgency of preserving investigating the way we interpret the untold, the unintelligible, and the unacceptable.
Keywords HIV epidemic • Indigenous medical practice • Charles Saffray • Popol Vuh • Relations between medicine and literature • Medicine and literature • Chilean literature • Illnesses • Translations • Fantastic literature • María Luisa Ocampo • Stigma • HIV-positive novel • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Transcendental performance • Scientific medicine • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Ancestral • Moral treatises • Mapuche • Body • Neofantastic • Tomás González • Reino de Nueva Granada • Hispanic-American literatures • Life • Hispanic American theatre • Metaphor • Diego Muzzio • Travel diaries • Traditional medicine • Amazonian cultures • Peruvian literature • Fantastic • Jorge Luis Borges • Fetish • Sixteenth century • Transgression • Doctor and patient • Mexican exvotos • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Ritual theatre • Illness • Medicine • Argentine literature • Scientific discourse • Francisco de Quevedo • Biography • Lexicography • Globalization • Literature • Literature therapy • Chile • Illness and gender • Narrative medicine • Monologues • Cuban fiction • Representation of illness • Cuban theatre • Lexicology • Weird • Women and art in Mexico • Silvina Ocampo • Total institution • Doll • Costa Rican literature • Ramiro Sanchiz • Fantastic rhetoric • Childhood • Tobacco • Capitalism • Sanatorium • AIDS • Linguistics • Cognitive • Fairy tales • Death • Ideology • American plants • “El Sur” • Colombian literature • Story • Empirical medicine • Metonymy • Traditional indigenous medicine • Narrative • Yellow Fever • Homophobia
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-939-9 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-939-9 | Published Sept. 9, 2025 | Language es
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