Evil animes and Honorable Ruptures: Reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera through a Public Health Humanities Lens
- 23 January 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Medical Humanities
- Vol. 43 (4), 533-545
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09728-9
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.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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