Medical Cultures Of The Early Modern Spanish Empire

Author : John Slater,Maríaluz López-Terrada,José Pardo-Tomás
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317098386

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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire by John Slater,Maríaluz López-Terrada,José Pardo-Tomás Pdf

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico, to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany. Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and death, in a historical moment marked by continuous cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately, the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic, analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle; and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity. Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the English-speaking world.

Author : John Slater,María Luz López Terrada,José Pardo Tomás
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 131559465X

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Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire by John Slater,María Luz López Terrada,José Pardo Tomás Pdf

Author : Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487505189

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Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World by Margaret E. Boyle,Sarah E. Owens Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and experiences are tied to gender.

Author : Kimberly Lynn,Erin Kathleen Rowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107109285

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The Early Modern Hispanic World by Kimberly Lynn,Erin Kathleen Rowe Pdf

This book engages with new ways of thinking about boundaries of the early modern Hispanic past, looking at current scholarly techniques.

Author : Martha Few,Zeb Tortorici,Adam Warren
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271086743

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Baptism Through Incision by Martha Few,Zeb Tortorici,Adam Warren Pdf

In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism Through Incision presents Arrese’s complete treatise—translated here into English for the first time—with a critical introduction and excerpts from related primary source texts. Inspired by priests’ writings published in Spain and Sicily beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, Arrese and writers like him in Peru, Mexico, Alta California, Guatemala, and the Philippines penned local medico-religious manuals and guides for performing the operation and baptism. Comparing these texts to one another and placing them in dialogue with archival cases and print culture references, this book traces the genealogy of the postmortem cesarean operation throughout the Spanish Empire and reconstructs the transatlantic circulation of obstetrical and scientific knowledge around childbirth and reproduction. In doing so, it shows that knowledge about cesarean operations and fetal baptism intersected with local beliefs and quickly became part of the new ideas and scientific-medical advancements circulating broadly among transatlantic Enlightenment cultures. A valuable resource for scholars and students of colonial Latin American history, the history of medicine, and the history of women, reproduction, and childbirth, Baptism Through Incision includes translated excerpts of works by Spanish surgeon Jaime Alcalá y Martínez, Mexican physician Ignacio Segura, and Peruvian friar Francisco González Laguna, as well as late colonial Guatemalan instructions, and newspaper articles published in the Gazeta de México, the Gazeta de Guatemala, and the Mercurio Peruano.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004386464

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Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World by Anonim Pdf

Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the early modern world.

Author : Erin Cowling
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487517656

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Chocolate by Erin Cowling Pdf

In terms of its popularity, as well as its production, chocolate was among the first foods to travel from the New World to Spain. Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature considers chocolate as an object of collective memory used to bridge the transatlantic gap through Spanish literary works of the early modern period, tracing the mention of chocolate from indigenous legends and early chronicles of the conquistadors to the theatre and literature of Spain. The book considers a variety of perspectives and material cultures, such as the pre-Colombian conception of chocolate, the commercial enterprise surrounding chocolate, and the darker side of chocolate’s connections to witchcraft and sex. Encapsulating both historical and literary interests, Chocolate will appeal to anyone interested in the global history of chocolate.

Author : Dmitri Levitin,Ian Maclean
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004462335

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The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Age by Dmitri Levitin,Ian Maclean Pdf

This volume is the first to adopt systematically a comparative approach to the role of ancient texts and traditions in early modern scholarship, science, medicine, and theology. It offers a new method for understanding early modern knowledge.

Author : Matthew James Crawford,Joseph M. Gabriel
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986836

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Drugs on the Page by Matthew James Crawford,Joseph M. Gabriel Pdf

In the early modern Atlantic World, pharmacopoeias—official lists of medicaments and medicinal preparations published by municipal, national, or imperial governments—organized the world of healing goods, giving rise to new and valuable medical commodities such as cinchona bark, guaiacum, and ipecac. Pharmacopoeias and related texts, developed by governments and official medical bodies as a means to standardize therapeutic practice, were particularly important to scientific and colonial enterprises. They served, in part, as tools for making sense of encounters with a diversity of peoples, places, and things provoked by the commercial and colonial expansion of early modern Europe. Drugs on the Page explores practices of recording, organizing, and transmitting information about medicinal substances by artisans, colonial officials, indigenous peoples, and others who, unlike European pharmacists and physicians, rarely had a recognized role in the production of official texts and medicines. Drawing on examples across various national and imperial contexts, contributors to this volume offer new and valuable insights into the entangled histories of knowledge resulting from interactions and negotiations between Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans from 1500 to 1850.

Author : Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271071214

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The End Again by Oscar E. Vázquez Pdf

Explores how definitions of Spanish modernisms from 1874 to 1923 were dependent upon the concepts of degeneration and regeneration. Analyzes the relation between these concepts by examining representations of the body in specific spaces.

Author : Sebastiaan Verweij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198757290

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The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland by Sebastiaan Verweij Pdf

Explaining the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, this book argues for the importance of three key places of production of such manuscripts; the royal court, burghs and towns.

Author : Pablo F. Gómez
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469630885

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The Experiential Caribbean by Pablo F. Gómez Pdf

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it relates to well-known frameworks for the study of science and medicine. Drawing on an array of governmental and ecclesiastical sources—notably Inquisition records—Gomez highlights more than one hundred black ritual practitioners regarded as masters of healing practices and as social and spiritual leaders. He shows how they developed evidence-based healing principles based on sensorial experience rather than on dogma. He elucidates how they nourished ideas about the universality of human bodies, which contributed to the rise of empirical testing of disease origins and cures. Both colonial authorities and Caribbean people of all conditions viewed this experiential knowledge as powerful and competitive. In some ways, it served to respond to the ills of slavery. Even more crucial, however, it demonstrates how the black Atlantic helped creatively to fashion the early modern world.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527525566

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Learning from Empire by Poonam Bala Pdf

Internationalisation of medical knowledge, its circulation and implementation through colonial institutions have played a significant role in combating diseases of public health importance. With contributions from reputed faculty and researchers, this volume examines the dynamics of circulation of medical knowledge and the creation of webs of empire through medical curiosities, medical and architectural knowledge, medical manuscripts, African agency, medical ideas and management of diseases, surgical and anatomical knowledge and a collective scientific enterprise in translating ‘local’ to ‘universal’ paradigms of practice.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226058559

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Visible Empire by Daniela Bleichmar Pdf

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.

Author : Jodi Campbell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290815

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At the First Table by Jodi Campbell Pdf

"At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food as a mechanism for the performance and maintenance of social identity"--