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Health tourism (video)
The following audiovisual collage about health tourism was made in Tijuana. It was a collaboration between myself and Omar Pimienta, a visual artist and poet. We want to thank to those involved (voluntarily and involuntarily) in the making of this video. El siguiente es un collage audiovisual, a propósito del turismo de salud. El […]
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Health tourism* / Turismo de salud
In her book, Illness as metaphor and AIDS and Its metaphors, Susan Sontag, begins by stating: Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, […]
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The gift of disease II / El don de la enfermedad II
The reduction of all that one is to materiality is a necessary part of the practice of conventional western medicine. Actually, I was this one thought: I knew I wanted to live. To live was to stay alive and to not be reduced to materiality. There was no way I was going to go through […]