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