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1 Online-Ressource (362 pages)
ISBN:
9789004351271
Series Statement:
The Atlantic World Ser
Content:
"Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science and Society" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "Contents" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Abbreviations" -- "1 Medicines: Empire, Science and Society" -- "Medicine and Empire" -- "Practices of Medicine" -- "Medicine and Science" -- "Practitioners of Medicine" -- "Prospectus" -- "2 Learning to Make Medicines" -- "Makers of Medicines" -- "Education and Practical Training" -- "Apothecaries from Spain" -- "University Medical Education" -- "Preparatory Schooling" -- "Educational Opportunities for Non-Elites" -- "On the Job Training" -- "Examinations and Licences" -- "Female Medical Learning" -- "Conclusion" -- "3 The Medicines Business" -- "Acquiring a Botica" -- "The Premises" -- "Employing Pharmacy Workers" -- "Indian Forced Labourers" -- "Black Pharmacy Workers" -- "Running a Pharmacy" -- "Conclusion" -- "4 Trading Medicines and Materia Medica" -- "Organisation of the Transatlantic Trade" -- "Apothecaries, Pepperers and Spicers" -- "The Transatlantic Trade in Materia Medica" -- "The Intercolonial Trade in Materia Medica" -- "Acquiring Materia Medica Locally" -- "Conclusion" -- "5 Selecting Materia Medica" -- "Humoralism" -- "Scholarly Scientific Explorations" -- "Paracelsianism" -- "Maintaining Medical Orthodoxy" -- "The Regulation of Pharmacies" -- "The Impact of the Counter Reformation and Inquisition" -- "The Circulation of Medical Texts" -- "Conclusion" -- "6 Making Medicines" -- "Types of Medicines" -- "Preparing Medicines" -- "Pharmacy Methods and Equipment" -- "Categories of Medicines" -- "Using Purgatives and Emetics" -- "Using Native Plants" -- "A Few Experiments" -- "Explaining the Failure to Adopt Native Botanical Materia Medica" -- "A Medical Marketplace?" -- "Using Minerals and Chemicals" -- "Conclusion" -- "7 The Social World of Apothecaries
Content:
"The Status of the Medical Profession" -- "The Middling Professional Status of the Apothecary" -- "Criticisms of the Medical Profession" -- "The Christian Calling of an Apothecary" -- "Projecting Professionalism" -- "Conclusion" -- "8 Persistent Practices" -- "Accounting for the Prevalence of Humoral Medicine" -- "Accounting for the Slow Adoption of Experimental Methods" -- "Appendices" -- "Appendix A Books Shipped from Spain by the Apothecary Juan Sánchez in 1591" -- "Appendix B List of Materia Medica Found in Pharmacies in Spain and Lima" -- "Appendix C Books Shipped from Spain to Doctor Melchor de Amusco in Nombre de Dios, 1584" -- "Glossary" -- "Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004350632
Additional Edition:
Print version A. Newson, Linda Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru : Apothecaries, Science and Society Boston : BRILL,c2017 ISBN 9789004350632
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