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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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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