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Una mirada médica de la vida
Este libro presenta un recorrido histórico de los médicos escritores y los escritores médicos, desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días. Los autores, Rosselli-Cock y Rodríguez de los Ríos, presentan, entre otros, obras de los ingleses Thomas Brown y del abuelo de Charles Darwin, Erasmus; del francés Jean-Paul Marat, protagonista en la Revolución francesa; del austriaco Sigmund Freud, del ruso Antón Chéjov y del escocés Archibald Joseph Cronin. Entre los médicos escritores de América Latina, examinan, por ejemplo, al argentino Baldomero Fernández Moreno o al brasileño João Guimarães Rosa. La segunda parte del libro, dedicada a los médicos escritores colombianos de los siglos XIX y XX, presenta a los médicos César Uribe Piedrahita, Luis López de Mesa, Luis María Murillo Sarmiento, José Félix Patiño Restrepo, Liborio Zerda y Manuel Zapata Olivella, entre muchos otros.
The Inventive Schoolmaster
“A constant belief seems to give life to Kohan’s theoretical work and philosophical practice. A supposition that one could never prove, or disprove, motivates Kohan’s ceaseless erring and essaying, his efforts to invent school. We read it in-between the lines of nearly all of his published work, and those who have had the chance to take part in his manner of philosophical askēsis feel it in his practice. It is a belief that he shares with Rodríguez: All children, adolescents, and adults, from all walks of life, from any corner of the globe, no matter their economic status, occupation, gender, race, or ethnicity, can philosophize. But perhaps more profoundly, and it is here where I th...
Frontiers of Possession
Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.
Behind Spanish American Footlights
Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s. This volume, filled with a fascinating array of information, sparkles with wit while giving the reader a fact-filled course in the history of Spanish American drama that he can get nowhere else. This is the first book in English ever to consider the theatre of all the Spanish American countries. Even in Spanish, the pioneer study that covers the whole field was also written by Jones. Jones sees the history of a nation in the history of its drama. Pre-Columbian Indian...
