Tag: Alfredo Boulton
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Art, Cristobal Rojas, and tuberculosis: a Latin American cultural experience
Maria S. Landaeta Aldo L. Schenone Gregory W. Rutecki Fig. 1: Self portrait by Rojas, (1887) [public domain] Tuberculosis, the “captain of all these men of death,” has devastated diverse societies for thousands of years. How are experiences related to this unforgiving and seemingly insatiable disease made unique by their cultural contexts? The visual…