Evil animes and Honorable Ruptures: Reading Gabriel Garc ía Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera through a Public Health Humanities Lens

AbstractExtent health humanities readings of Gabriel Garc ía Márquez’sLove 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 cl ose reading method to explore how the competing endemic and epidemic public health issues shape the plot and metaphors of the novel.
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research