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 - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email orcid profile
- Maria Rita Consolaro - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Alice Favaro - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - 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 Sixteenth century • Scientific discourse • Hispanic-American literatures • Chile • Medicine • Lexicology • Monologues • Literature • Doctor and patient • Homophobia • Chilean literature • Yellow Fever • American plants • Charles Saffray • Traditional indigenous medicine • Francisco de Quevedo • Travel diaries • Mexican exvotos • HIV epidemic • Transgression • Juan del Valle y Caviedes • Doll • Cognitive • Metonymy • Translations • Hispanic American theatre • Representation of illness • Fantastic literature • “El Sur” • Childhood • Stigma • Death • Spanish and Italian publishing production • Women and art in Mexico • Scientific medicine • Linguistics • Fetish • Globalization • Life • Moral treatises • Total institution • Capitalism • HIV-positive novel • Story • Transcendental performance • Cuban fiction • Ritual theatre • Biography • Ramiro Sanchiz • Metaphor • Jorge Luis Borges • Indigenous medical practice • Peruvian literature • Tobacco • Cuban theatre • Ancestral • María Luisa Ocampo • Tomás González • Neofantastic • Weird • Illnesses • AIDS • Literature therapy • Illness and gender • Illness • Costa Rican literature • Fairy tales • Fantastic rhetoric • Amazonian cultures • Narrative • Relations between medicine and literature • Mapuche • Sanatorium • Empirical medicine • Traditional medicine • Popol Vuh • Body • Lexicography • Silvina Ocampo • La maraca embrujada por jibaná • Narrative medicine • Reino de Nueva Granada • Medicine and literature • Argentine literature • Ideology • Colombian literature • Diego Muzzio • Fantastic
Thema codes DSBH5 • 5TD-ES-A • 5TK
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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