Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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