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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787087503321

Titolo

Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire / / edited by John Slater, Maríaluz López-Terrada, and José Pardo-Tomás

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-59465-X

1-317-09838-2

1-317-09837-4

1-4724-2814-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies

Disciplina

610.946

Soggetti

Medicine - Spain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Spain and the New World of Medical Cultures; 1 The Culture of Peyote: Between Divination and Disease in Early Modern New Spain; 2 "Antiguamente vivían más sanos que ahora": Explanations of Native Mortality in the Relaciones Geográficas de Indias; 3 The Blood of the Dragon: Alchemy and Natural History in Nicolás Monardes's Historia medicinal; Part 2: Itineraries of Spanish Medicine; 4 "From Where They Are Now to Whence They Came From"

5 Literary Anthropologies and Pedro González, the "Wild Man" of Tenerife 6 The Medical Cultures of "the Spaniards of Italy"; Part 3: Textual Cultures in Conflict, Competition, and Circulation; 7 "Offspring of the Mind": Childbirth and Its Perils in Early Modern Spanish Literature; 8 "Sallow-Faced Girl, Either It's Love or You've Been Eating Clay": The Representation of Illness in Golden Age Theater; 9 The Dramatic Culture of Astrological Medicine in Early Modern Spain ; 10 The Theological Drama of Chymical Medicine in Early Modern Spain

Epilogue: The Difference That Made Spain, the Difference That Spain MadeBibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity and death came into contact and conflict. Old ideas took root in new soil, others were stamped out, and new cultures arose. This collection examines the dynamic context in which medical cultures circulated to propose new interpretations of the reception, appropriation, and elaboration of medical cultures in the vast territories controlled by the Spanish monarchy.