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Author:   Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367871390

ISBN 10:   0367871394
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Introduction: Medical Humanities Perspectives on Iberian and Latin American Literature Patricia Novillo-Corvalán 2. Explorers of the Human Brain: The Neurological Insights of Borges and Ramón y Cajal Patricia Novillo-Corvalán 3. The Anti-Diagnostics of Júlio Dinis and the Medical Hubris of Egas Moniz Susanne Black 4. Oculists and other Modern Visionaries: Epistemological Myopia in José Fernández Bremón’s Un crimen científico Rocío Rødtjer 5. Emilia Pardo Bazán and the Diagnosis of Cultural Diseases Anne W. Gilfoil 6. Darwinism and Identity: Evolution, Science, and Medicine in Aluísio Azevedo’s O mulato Elizabeth A. Marchant 7. Simon Bolívar’s Illness in Gabriel García Márquez’s The General in His Labyrinth Olivia Vázquez Medina 8. Healing the Family in Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate Debra D. Andrist 9. Health and/as Sickness in the Fiction of Julio Cortázar Dominic Moran 10. Asthma and its Symbolism: The Respiratory Aesthetics of José Lezama Lima William Rowlandson 11. Illness and Utopia in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps and Severo Sarduy’s Beach Birds Guillermina De Ferrari 12. Calligraphies of Illness in Contemporary Catalan Culture: The Power of Metaphor Montserrat Lunati

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Patricia Novillo-Corvalán is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

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