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Evil animes and Honorable Ruptures: Reading Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera through a Public Health Humanities Lens.

Authors :
Larson SA
Source :
The Journal of medical humanities [J Med Humanit] 2022 Dec; Vol. 43 (4), pp. 533-545. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 23.
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Extent health humanities readings of Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera have focused on the doctor-patient relationship, the physician-scientist as a model for aspiring practitioners, and how individuals relate to the novel's health themes of death, disease, and disability. However, such medicine-focused readings neglect the population-level public health concerns of the novel as they relate to contagion, community, and quarantine. This paper contributes to the growing field of public health humanities by using a close reading method to explore how the competing endemic and epidemic public health issues shape the plot and metaphors of the novel.<br /> (© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1573-3645
Volume :
43
Issue :
4
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
The Journal of medical humanities
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
35066734
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09728-9