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 Ideology • Mapuche • Sixteenth century • Indigenous medical practice • Jorge Luis Borges • Weird • Biography • Chilean literature • Hispanic-American literatures • Stigma • American plants • Metaphor • Lexicology • Story • Scientific medicine • Yellow Fever • Cognitive • Metonymy • Ritual theatre • Narrative • Narrative medicine • Fetish • Popol Vuh • Reino de Nueva Granada • Mexican exvotos • Diego Muzzio • Tomás González • Traditional indigenous medicine • Fantastic • Fantastic literature • Illness • AIDS • Cuban fiction • Relations between medicine and literature • Ramiro Sanchiz • Fantastic rhetoric • Fairy tales • Translations • Chile • Argentine literature • Hispanic American theatre • Childhood • Scientific discourse • Literature • Medicine and literature • Silvina Ocampo • Illnesses • Travel diaries • Monologues • Sanatorium • Medicine • Charles Saffray • Lexicography • “El Sur” • Tobacco • Peruvian literature • Transcendental performance • Capitalism • Body • Doctor and patient • Linguistics • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Moral treatises • Women and art in Mexico • Neofantastic • Literature therapy • Representation of illness • Globalization • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Illness and gender • Transgression • Cuban theatre • Ancestral • Empirical medicine • Francisco de Quevedo • HIV-positive novel • Costa Rican literature • Colombian literature • Life • Amazonian cultures • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Traditional medicine • Death • Total institution • Doll • Homophobia • María Luisa Ocampo • HIV epidemic
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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