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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramírez, Dora Alicia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2017.
Temas:
American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Medicine and the humanities.
Medicine in literature.
Body and soul in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Medicine in Literature
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Médecine et sciences humaines.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Esprit et corps dans la littérature.
Modernisme (Littérature)
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • 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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