Marvels of medicine : literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America / Yari Perez Marin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pérez Marín, Yarí, author.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; Volume 21.

Liverpool Latin American studies ; Volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Latin America--History--16th century.

Medicine.

Medical literature--Latin America--History--16th century.

Medical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.

Summary:

'Marvels of Medicine' makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80085-101-4

1-78962-267-0