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The black doctors of colonial Lima : science, race, and writing in colonial and early republican Peru

Title
The black doctors of colonial Lima : science, race, and writing in colonial and early republican Peru / José R. Jouve Martín.
Author
Jouve Martín, José Ramón
Publication
Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

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Description
xxvii, 209 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jose Jouve Martin explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: Jose Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; Jose Manuel Davalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and Jose Manuel Valdes, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America. By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution.
Series Statement
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41
Uniform Title
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-202) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. From Healers to Doctors -- 2. Enlightened Surgeons, Public Writers -- 3. Doctors, Citizens, Revolutionaries -- 4. A Black Protomédico in Republican Peru -- Conclusion.
Call Number
Sc E 16-838
ISBN
  • 9780773543416
  • 0773543414
  • 9780773590526 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780773590533 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
864505027
Author
Jouve Martín, José Ramón, author.
Title
The black doctors of colonial Lima : science, race, and writing in colonial and early republican Peru / José R. Jouve Martín.
Publisher
Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-202) and index.
Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic formats.
Local Note
AUTH: MCGILL UNIVERSITY. STUDY FOCUSES ON 3 18TH/19TH CENT. AFRO-PERUVIAN DOCTORS.
Other Form:
Jouve Martín, José Ramón, author. Black doctors of colonial Lima. McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; (CaOONL)2013908519X
Research Call Number
Sc E 16-838
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