Health and healing in the early modern Iberian world a gendered perspective / edited by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens.
| Other author | Boyle, Margaret E., 1983- |
| Other author | Owens, Sarah E., 1969- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021] |
| Description | xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Toronto Iberic ; 57 Toronto Iberic ; 57. |
| Contents | Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid / Carolin Schmitz and Maríaluz López-Terrada -- Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal Disease Experiences in Colonial Lima / Kathleen M. Kole de Peralta -- Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru / Sarah E. Owens -- Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse / Karen Stolley -- Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain / Emily Colbert Cairns -- The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage / Sherry Velasco -- Staging Womens Healing: Theory and Practice / Margaret E. Boyle -- Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617-1667) / Patricia W. Manning -- Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism / Barbara Mujica -- Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire / George A. Klaeren. |
| Abstract | "Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of "health" and "healing" between 1500 and 1800. Through an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, gender history, and the literature and culture of the early modern Atlantic World, this collection of essays points to the ways in which the practice of medicine, the delivery of healthcare, and the experiences of disease and health are gendered. The contributors explore how the medical profession sought to exert its power over patients, determining standards that impacted conceptions of self and body, and at the same time, how this influence was mediated. Using a range of sources, the essays reveal the multiple and sometimes contradictory ways that early modern health discourse intersected with gender and sexuality, as well as its ties to interconnected ethical, racial, and class-driven concerns. Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World breaks new ground through its systematic focus on gender and sexuality as they relate to the delivery of healthcare, the practice of medicine, and the experiences of health and healing across early modern Spain and colonial Latin America."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023446390 |
| ISBN | 9781487505189 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1487505183 hardcover |
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