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From body to community : venereal disease and society in Baroque Spain /
"Known in early modern Europe by many names--the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis--the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Toronto Iberic.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Getting sick: signs, sin, and social worth
- Encounters of the third kind: medical assumptions and patients
- Melting pot: the Hospital de Santiago's patients
- Safeguarding reputation: gender, hospitalization, and textiles
- Between body and soul: treatment at the Hospital de Santiago
- Getting hitched: pox, sexuality and marriage
- Making ends meet: disease, work, and family
- Playing nice with others: pox and community.