The black doctors of colonial Lima : science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru / José R. Jouve Martín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jouve Martín, José Ramón, author.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41.

McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823.

Larrinaga, José Pastor.

Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821.

Dávalos, José Manuel.

Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843.

Valdés, José Manuel.

Medicine--Social aspects--Peru--Lima--History.

Medicine.

Science--Social aspects--Peru--Lima--History.

Science.

Medical writing--Social aspects--Peru--Lima--History.

Medical writing.

Race--Social aspects--Peru--Lima--History.

Race.

Physicians--Peru--Lima--History.

Physicians.

Surgeons--Peru--Lima--History.

Surgeons.

Black people--Peru--Lima--History.

Black people.

Lima (Peru)--Race relations--History.

Lima (Peru).

Peru--Colonization--History.

Peru.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]

Summary:

In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: José Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; José Manuel Dávalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and José Manuel Valdés, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America. By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution.

Contents:

Introduction

From Healers to Doctors

Enlightened Surgeons, Public Writers

Doctors, Citizens, Revolutionaries

A Black Protomédico in Republican Peru

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-9052-8

OCLC:

881552140