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Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire / edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, and José Pardo-Tomás.
| Other author | Slater, John, 1972- |
| Other author | López Terrada, María Luz. |
| Other author | Pardo Tomás, José. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014] |
| Description | xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies New hispanisms. ^A1286802 |
| Contents | Introduction : medical cultures of the Early modern Spanish Empire / John Slater, José Pardo-Tomás, and Maríaluz López-Terrada -- The culture of peyote : between divination and disease in Early modern New Spain / Angélica Morales Sarabia -- "Antiguamente vivían más sanos que ahora" : explanations of native mortality in the Relaciones geográficas de Indias / José Pardo-Tomás -- The blood of the dragon : alchemy and natural history in Nicolás Monardes's Historia medicinal / Ralph Bauer -- "From where they are now to whence they came from" : news about health and disease in New Spain (1550-1615) / Mauricio Sánchez-Menchero -- Literary anthropologies and Pedro González, the "Wild Man" of Tenerife / M.A. Katritzky -- The medical cultures of "the Spaniards of Italy" : scientific communication, learned practices and medicine in the correspondence of Juan Páez de Castro (1545-1552) / Elisa Andretta -- "Offspring of the mind" : childbirth and its perils in Early modern Spanish literature / Enrique García Santo-Tomás -- "Sallow-faced girl, either it's love or you've been eating clay" : the representation of illness in the Golden age theater / Maríaluz López-Terrada -- The dramatic culture of astrological medicine in Early modern Spain / Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro -- The theological drama of chemical medicine in Early modern Spain / John Slater -- Epilogue: the difference that was Spain, the difference that Spain made / William Eamon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014017438 |
| ISBN | 9781472428134 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1472428137 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |