Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire / edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada and José Pardo-Tomás |
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London, New York :
Routledge
, 2020 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XIII-309 p.) |
Collection : | New hispanisms (Print) |
Titre de l'ensemble : | New hispanisms |
Sujets : |
- Introduction : medical cultures of the Early modern Spanish Empire / John Slater, José Pardo-Tomás, and Maríaluz López-Terrada
- Part 1 : Spain and the new world of medical cultures
- 1. The culture of peyote : between divination and disease in Early modern New Spain / Angélica Morales Sarabia
- 2. "Antiguamente vivían más sanos que ahora" : explanations of native mortality in the Relaciones geográficas de Indias / José Pardo-Tomás
- 3. The blood of the dragon : alchemy and natural history in Nicolás Monardes's Historia medicinal / Ralph Bauer
- Part 2 : Itineraries of spanish medicine
- 4. "From where they are now to whence they came from" : news about health and disease in New Spain (1550-1615) / Mauricio Sánchez-Menchero
- 5. Literary anthropologies and Pedro González, the "Wild Man" of Tenerife / M.A. Katritzky
- 6. The medical cultures of "the Spaniards of Italy" : scientific communication, learned practices and medicine in the correspondence of Juan Páez de Castro (1545-1552) / Elisa Andretta
- Part 3 : Textual cultures in conflict, competition, and circulation
- 7. "Offspring of the mind" : childbirth and its perils in Early modern Spanish literature / Enrique García Santo-Tomás
- 8. "Sallow-faced girl, either it's love or you've been eating clay" : the representation of illness in the Golden age theater / Maríaluz López-Terrada
- 9. The dramatic culture of astrological medicine in Early modern Spain / Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro
- 10. The theological drama of chemical medicine in Early modern Spain / John Slater
- Epilogue : the difference that was Spain, the difference that Spain made / William Eamon.