Format:
xiii, 309 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
1472428137
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9781472428134
Series Statement:
New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index
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Introduction : medical cultures of the Early modern Spanish Empire / John Slater, José Pardo-Tomás, and Maríaluz López-TerradaThe 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472428141
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472428158
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Medical cultures of the early modern Spanish empire Farnham, Surrey [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2014 ISBN 9781472428141
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472428158
Language:
English
Keywords:
Spanien
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Medizin
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Geschichte 1451-1600
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