This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures, while also considering the social, political, religious, symbolic, and metaphysical dimensions underpinning illness. Investigating how Hispanic and Lusophone writers have reflected on the personal and cultural effects of illness, it raises central questions about how medical discourses, cultural pathologies, and the art of healing in general are represented. Essays pay particular attention to the ways in which these interdisciplinary dialogues chart new directions in the study of Hispanic and Lusophone cultures, and emerging disciplines such as the medical humanities. Addressing a wide range of themes and subjects including bioethics, neuroscience, psychosurgery, medical technologies, Darwinian evolution, indigenous herbal medicine, the rising genre of the pathography, and the 'illness as metaphor' trope, the collection engages with the discourses of cultural studies, gender studies, disability studies, comparative literature, and the medical humanities. This book enriches and stimulates scholarship in these areas by showing how much we still have to gain from interdisciplinary studies working at the intersections between the humanities and the sciences.
Introduction: Medical Humanities Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literature Patricia Novillo-Corvalan 1. Explorers of the Human Brain: The Neurological Insights of Borges and Ramon y Cajal Patricia Novillo-Corvalan 2. Oculists and other Modern Visionaries: Discursive Cataracts and Epistemological Myopia in Jose Fernandez Bremon's Un crimen cientifico Rocio Rodtjer 3. The Anti-Diagnostics of Julio Dinis and the Medical Hubris of Egas Moniz Susanne Black 4. Science, Medicine and Illness in Realist Luso-Brazilian Fiction: Eca de Queiroz and Machado de Assis Patricia Silva McNeill 5. Darwinism and Identity: The Survival of the Fittest in Aluisio de Azevedo's O Mulato Elizabeth A. Marchant 6. Bolivar's Illness in Garcia Marquez's The General in His Labyrinth Olivia Vazquez Medina 7. Illness as Metaphor in Julio Cortazar's Fiction Dominic Moran 8. Illness and Utopia in Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps and Severo Sarduy's Beach Birds Guillermina De Ferrari 9. Asthma and its Symbolism: The Respiratory Aesthetics of Jose Lezama Lima William Rowlandson 10. Calligraphies of Illness in Contemporary Catalan Culture: The Power of Metaphor Montserrat Lunati
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