Article ; Online: The case of the writer Pedro Castera
Asclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Vol 71, Iss
between the public sphere, the literary field and the mental hospital experience in Mexico at the end of the XIX century
2019 Volume 2
Abstract: In the summer of 1883, the writer, miner, scientist and follower of spiritism Pedro Castera (1846-1906) was detained at the Hospital de San Hipólito for demented men in Mexico City. The confinement and isolation of the also poet aroused heated debates ... ...
| Abstract | In the summer of 1883, the writer, miner, scientist and follower of spiritism Pedro Castera (1846-1906) was detained at the Hospital de San Hipólito for demented men in Mexico City. The confinement and isolation of the also poet aroused heated debates and disputes surrounding his mental condition. The reasons for his internment and the conjectures about the psychopathology that afflicted him were crucial within the narrative of a case in which political intrigues, family suspicions, medical controversies and literary conventions converged. The aim of the present work is to analyze the medical valuations around the confinement, permanence and exit of Pedro Castera in and from the hospital, as well as to reflect on the resignification of the figure of the literary-madman from the emergence of the discourse of mental medicine in the context of Porfirian modernity. |
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| Keywords | locura ; psiquiatría ; literatura ; confinamiento ; porfiriato ; History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ; AZ20-999 ; History of medicine. Medical expeditions ; R131-687 |
| Subject code | 900 |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z |
| Publisher | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| Document type | Article ; Online |
| Database | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection) |
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