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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Slater, John, 1972- (Editor ), López Terrada, María Luz (Editor ), Pardo Tomás, José (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlingotn Vt. : Ashgate, 2014.
Colección:New hispanisms.
Temas:
1400-1599
Medicine in literature.
Medicine > Spain > History > 15th century.
Medicine > Spain > History > 16th century.
Medicine > History.
Medicine in Literature
History of Medicine
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Médecine dans la littérature.
Médecine > Espagne > Histoire > 15e siècle.
Médecine > Espagne > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
history of medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Medicine.
Spain
Spain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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