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Medicine and politics in colonial Peru : population growth and the Bourbon reforms /

"Adam Warren uses debates over vaccinations and disease in late colonial Peru to shed light not only on ideas about the body and death but also on the Bourbon Reforms and trans-Atlantic ideas in the age of the Enlightenment. Moving as it does from the microbe to the macro, Medicine and Politics...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Adam, Ph.D
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2010.
Colección:Pitt Latin American series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cultures of healing in colonial Lima, 1535-1780
  • Professionalizing healers and the Bourbon politics of reform, 1760-1810
  • Creole medical authority and peninsular vaccination campaigns, 1802-1810
  • Conquering the Biblical curse, 1804-1815
  • Burial reforms, piety, and popular protest, 1808-1850
  • Medical education and the end of medical reforms, 1808-1840.