Abstract

GONZALEZ ARRIETA, María Leonor. Medicina y literatura, un eslabón indisoluble: Enfoque literario sobre las aportaciones de la cultura egipcia a la medicina. Gac. Méd. Méx [online]. 2004, vol.140, n.2, pp.225-227. ISSN 2696-1288.

Medicine and literature are bound humanistically disciplines from the moment that Man has the necessity to communicate his restlessness, anguish and fears with regard to the presence of illness and death. Medical topics are a frequent resource in literary works in which the writer amalgamates the patient, the doctor, illness, and death from the human point of view. Specifically in the historical quality of the novel, the author is forced nevertheless to be documented thoroughly on the topic on which his work rotate, in such a way that he avoids incorrect historical data, combined with the necessity to give flight to his imagination in the creation of fictitious situations for his narration. Here we analyze as example of the details of medicine in the Egyptian culture beginning with the novel "Sinuhé the Egyptian", as an answer to scientific comment ary at an international on congress of neurosurgery.

Keywords : Literature; history; medicine; Egyptian culture.