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Scenes of Healing: Mexico, Medicine, and the Nation Form

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posted on 2025-06-26, 16:00 authored by George A Azcarate
This dissertation explores healing as a struggle between regimes of knowledge. It interrogates Mexican narratives of healing and disease from the late nineteenth century to the late seventies. It engages with a fundamental question: how has thinking about healing changed over time? By healing, I refer to the mediated passage from illness to wellness and analyze narrative depictions of this process. These depictions often bring together a patient and a healer. I understand the patient as a person, population, inanimate object, or living being mentally, physically, or spiritually afflicted. This affliction could be an illness, trauma, or any malady the reader perceives as part of the plot or scene. I understand the healer as a person, object, or animal facilitating the patient’s path from illness to wellness. What is at stake in this analysis is a critical understanding of a process essential to everyone’s survival.

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Date Created

2025-06-23

Date Modified

2025-06-26

Defense Date

2025-06-03

CIP Code

  • 16.0905

Research Director(s)

Joshua Lund

Committee Members

Carlos Jauregui Aidan Seale-Feldman Ben Heller

Degree

  • Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Level

  • Doctoral Dissertation

Language

  • English

Library Record

006715257

OCLC Number

1525424510

Publisher

University of Notre Dame

Additional Groups

  • Spanish

Program Name

  • Spanish

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