Orlando Mejía Rivera (born August 30, 1961) is a Colombian internist and graduated

M.Phil. The Master of Philosophy (MPhil; Latin ' or ') is a postgraduate degree. In the United States, an MPhil typically includes a taught portion and a significant research portion, during which a thesis project is conducted under supervision. An MPhil m ...

, writer and

thanatologist Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the postmortem period, as well as wider psychol ...

. He was born in

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

. Currently he lives in Manizales and is titular professor at the Universidad de Caldas faculty of medicine.Orlando Mejía Rivera
''El Asunto García''
(Spanish).

Works

Essays * ''Antropología de la muerte'' 1987 * ''Humanismo y antihumanismo'', 1990 * ''Ética y sida, 1995 * ''De la prehistoria a la medicina egipcia: introducción crítica a la historia de la medicina'', 1999 * ''La muerte y sus símbolos: muerte, tecnocracia y posmodernidad'', 1999 * ''De clones, ciborgs y sirenas'', 2000 * ''La generación mutante. nuevos narradores colombianos'', 2002 * ''Los descubrimientos serendípicos : aproximaciones epistemológicas al contexto del descubrimiento científico'', 2004 * ''Extraños escenarios de la noche: crónicas culturales'', 2005 * ''En el jardín de Mendel : bioética, genética humana y sociedad'', 2009 * ''Cronistas del futuro : ensayos sobre escritores de ciencia ficción'', 2012 * ''La biblioteca del dragón : lecturas inolvidables'', 2012 Fiction * ''La Casa Rosada'', 1997 * ''Pensamientos de guerra'', 2000 * ''El asunto García y otros cuentos'', 2006 * ''El enfermo de Abisinia'', 2007 * ''Recordando a Bosé'', 2009 * ''Manicomio de dioses'', 2010

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Colombian male writers Colombian internists People from Bogotá 1961 births Living people {{Colombia-writer-stub