Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Slater, John, 1972-
• López Terrada, María Luz
• Pardo Tomás, José

Description

xiii, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Series Statement

New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies

Uniform Title

New hispanisms.

Subjects

• Medicine
• Spain
• Medicine in Literature > Spain
• History
• History of Medicine > Spain
• Medicine > Spain > History
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600 > Spain
• Medizin

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-6733

ISBN

• 9781472428134 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1472428137 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781472428141 (ebk-PDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472428158 (ebk-ePUB) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014017438

OCLC

879416855

Title

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

Publisher

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies

New hispanisms.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index.

Added Author

Slater, John, 1972- editor.

López Terrada, María Luz, editor.

Pardo Tomás, José, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-6733