Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World : A Gendered Perspective / edited by Sarah E. Owens and Margaret E. Boyle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyle, Margaret E., 1983- editor.

Owens, Sarah E., 1969- editor.

Series:

Toronto Iberic.

Toronto Iberic Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healers--Latin America--History.

Healers.

Healers--Spain--History.

Healing--Latin America--History.

Healing.

Healing--Spain--History.

Women--Health and hygiene--Latin America--History.

Women.

Women--Health and hygiene--Spain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recognizing the variety of health experiences across geographical borders, Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World interrogates the concepts of "health" and "healing" between 1500 and 1800. Through an interdisciplinary approach to medical history, gender history, and the literature and culture of the early modern Atlantic World, this collection of essays points to the ways in which the practice of medicine, the delivery of healthcare, and the experiences of disease and health are gendered. The contributors explore how the medical profession sought to exert its power over patients, determining standards that impacted conceptions of self and body, and at the same time, how this influence was mediated. Using a range of sources, the essays reveal the multiple and sometimes contradictory ways that early modern health discourse intersected with gender and sexuality, as well as its ties to interconnected ethical, racial, and class-driven concerns. Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World breaks new ground through its systematic focus on gender and sexuality as they relate to the delivery of healthcare, the practice of medicine, and the experiences of health and healing across early modern Spain and colonial Latin America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing

Part One: Treatment Models

Chapter One Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid

Chapter Two Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal

Chapter Three Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru

Chapter Four Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse1

Part Two: Representing Health

Chapter Five Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain

Chapter Six The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage

Chapter Seven Staging Women’s Healing: Theory and Practice

Part Three: Faith and Illness

Chapter Eight Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617–1667)

Chapter Nine Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism

Chapter Ten Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth- Century Spanish Empire

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3171-0

1-4875-3170-2

OCLC:

1232174177