Medical imagery and fragmentation : modernism, scientific discourse, and the Mexican/indigenous body, 1870-1940s

Medical imagery and fragmentation : modernism, scientific discourse, and the Mexican/indigenous body, 1870-1940s / Dora Alicia Ramírez.

This book examines how industrialism led to the negation of racialized bodies, knowledges, and spaces. It analyzes the concept of the "individual" as a medical, economic, political, and theoretical term, focusing on how medical knowledge, doctors, surgery, experimentation, healing, and the...

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Main Author: Ramírez, Dora Alicia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
Subjects:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Medicine and the humanities.
Medicine in literature.
Body and soul in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
American literature > Mexican American authors
Body and soul in literature
Medicine and the humanities
Medicine in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the edges of fragmentation
  • Entrance into the soul: the benevolent doctor as a colonizing agent in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Who would have thought it?
  • The most dangerous girl in Mexico: medical rhetoric as social order in late 19th century Mexico and the United States
  • A gift from God: religion and science in María Cristina Mena's short fiction
  • Costumbrismo in a shadowed world: anxiety in Josefina Niggli's Step down, elder brother.

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