Latin American and Iberian perspectives on literature and medicine [electronic resource] / edited by Patricia Novillo-Corvalan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : medical humanities perspectives on Iberian and Latin American literature / Patricia Novillo-Corvalan -- 2. Explorers of the human brain : the neurological insights of Borges and Ramon y Cajal / Patricia Novillo-Corvalan -- 3. The anti-diagnostics of Julio Dinis and the medical hubris of Egas Moniz / Suzanne Black -- Oculists and other modern visionaries : epistemological myopia in Jose Fernandez Bremon's Un crimen cientifico / Rocio Rdtjer -- 5. Emilia Pardo Bazan and the diagnosis of cultural diseases / Anne W. Gilfoil -- 6. Darwinism and identity : evolution, science and medicine in Aluisio Azevedo's O mulato / Elizabeth A. Marchant -- 7. Simon Bolivar's illness in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The general in his labyrinth / Olivia Vazquez-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 Cortazar / Dominic Moran -- 10. Asthma and its symbolism : the respiratory aesthetics of Jose 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.