Abstract

ZAVALA DIAZ, Ana Laura. Intersections between Medicine and Literature: El hijo del Estado by Hilarión Frías y Soto. Bibliographica [online]. 2024, vol.7, n.1, pp.79-108.  Epub June 14, 2024. ISSN 2594-178X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iib.2594178xe.2024.1.477.

The relationship between literature and the periodical press has been deeply analyzed by the historiography of 19th-century Mexican literature. As a result of writers’ participation in the nation-building process, the periodical press became crucial as the main mechanism for disseminating literary projects with nationalist features. Moreover, practitioners of other fields, such as medicine, employed fictional narratives of a similar nature not only to transmit general notions of their discipline but also to contribute to the formation of citizenship, modeling their bodies through disciplinary discourses. This article focuses on the intersection between medicine and literature, analyzing the novel El Hijo del Estado (1882), by writer and physician Hilarión Frías y Soto, as a literary artifact that -inscribed in the columns of the newspaper El Diario del Hogar- contributed to the dissemination of both clinical and moralizing notions, primarily concerning female bodies.

Keywords : Periodical press; medicine; literature, Hilarión Frías y Soto; female body.

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