Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire

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Auteurs principaux : Slater John (Éditeur scientifique), López Terrada María Luz (Éditeur scientifique), Pardo Tomás José (Éditeur scientifique)
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
Publié : 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.