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Marvels of medicine : literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America /

"Marvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pérez Marín, Yarí (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Liverpool Latin American studies ; 21.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The surgeon's secrets: The medical travel narrative of Pedro Arias de Benavides
  • Irreconcilable differences? Anatomy, physiology and the New World body
  • Weakening the sex: The medicalisation of female gender identity in New Spain
  • Contested medical knowledge and regional self-fashioning