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Barberos, charlatanes y enfermos: La pluralidad médica de la España barroca percibida por el pícaro Estebanillo González / Barbers, charlatans, and the sick: The medical plurality of baroque Spain perceived by the picaresque Estebanillo González
Schmitz, Carolin.
Affiliation
  • Schmitz, Carolin; Universitat de València. Valencia. España
Dynamis (Granada) ; 36(1): 143-166, 2016.
Article in Spanish | IBECS | ID: ibc-151090
Responsible library: ES1.1
Localization: BNCS
RESUMEN
Para conocer las enfermedades y su tratamiento médico desde la perspectiva del enfermo en la sociedad española del Barroco, la literatura de creación, en particular la novela picaresca, es una valiosa fuente que nos ofrece una representación de las ideas sobre la medicina y la enfermedad difundidas entre la población y difícilmente accesibles desde otras fuentes. Vida y hechos de Estebanillo González (1646), en tanto que relato narrado en primera persona, permite conocer tres aspectos diferentes del mundo médico en Europa durante la Guerra de los Treinta Años Estebanillo ejerce diversos oficios médicos, comparece en la narración como paciente y comenta prácticas relacionadas con la salud y la enfermedad, proporcionando material de gran utilidad para analizar cómo se representan los diferentes ámbitos de la medicina en esta obra literaria (AU)
ABSTRACT
In order to know about diseases and their medical treatment from the perspective of the patient in Baroque Spanish society, creative literature, especially the picaresque novel, is a valuable source that offers a representation of ideas on medicine and disease that were widespread among the population and difficult to access from other sources. The first-person narrative in the Vida y hechos de Estebanillo González (1646) offers knowledge on three different aspects of the medical world in Europe during the Thirty Years’ War Estebanillo practises various medical professions, appears in the story as a patient and comments on health practices and disease, providing highly useful material to analyze how different fields of medicine are represented in this literary work (AU)
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Full text: Available Collection: National databases / Spain Database: IBECS Main subject: Patients / Quackery / Disease / Cultural Diversity / Barber Surgeons / History of Medicine / Literature, Medieval / Medicine in Literature Aspects: Social determinants of health Limits: Female / Humans / Male Language: Spanish Journal: Dynamis (Granada) Year: 2016 Document type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universitat de València/España

Full text: Available Collection: National databases / Spain Database: IBECS Main subject: Patients / Quackery / Disease / Cultural Diversity / Barber Surgeons / History of Medicine / Literature, Medieval / Medicine in Literature Aspects: Social determinants of health Limits: Female / Humans / Male Language: Spanish Journal: Dynamis (Granada) Year: 2016 Document type: Article Institution/Affiliation country: Universitat de València/España
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