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Medical cultures of the Early modern Spanish empire / edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, and José Pardo-Tomás

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Farnham, Surrey ; Burlingotn Vt. : Ashgate, 2014.
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Slater, John, 1972-, López Terrada, María Luz, and Pardo Tomás, José
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English.
Contents
Introduction : medical cultures of the Early modern Spanish Empire / John Slater, José Pardo-Tomás, and Maríaluz López-Terrada -- The culture of peyote : between divination and disease in Early modern New Spain / Angélica Morales Sarabia -- "Antiguamente vivían más sanos que ahora" : explanations of native mortality in the Relaciones geográficas de Indias / José Pardo-Tomás -- The blood of the dragon : alchemy and natural history in Nicolás Monardes's Historia medicinal / Ralph Bauer -- "From where they are now to whence they came from" : news about health and disease in New Spain (1550-1615) / Mauricio Sánchez-Menchero -- Literary anthropologies and Pedro González, the "Wild Man" of Tenerife / M.A. Katritzky -- 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 -- "Offspring of the mind" : childbirth and its perils in Early modern Spanish literature / Enrique García Santo-Tomás -- "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 -- The dramatic culture of astrological medicine in Early modern Spain / Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro -- 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.
Summary
As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity and death came into contact and conflict. Old ideas took root in new soil, others were stamped out, and new cultures arose. This collection examines the dynamic context in which medical cultures circulated to propose new interpretations of the reception, appropriation, and elaboration of medical cultures in the vast territories controlled by the Spanish monarchy.
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ISBN
9781472428141 (electronic bk.)
1472428145 (electronic bk.)
1472428137
9781472428134
1317098382
9781317098386
1317098374
9781317098379
9781472428158
9781315594651 (electronic bk.)
131559465X (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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