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Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of medicine in context
- The history of medicine in context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century. Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas.
- Orta, Garcia de.
- Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century.
- Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas.
- Materia medica, Vegetable--India--History--16th century.
- Materia medica, Vegetable.
- Naturalists--Portugal--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Medicine--India--History--16th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Portugal--History--16th century.
- Velha Goa (India)--Commerce--History--16th century.
- Velha Goa (India).
- Indian Ocean--Commerce--History--16th century.
- Indian Ocean.
- Portugal--Commerce--History--16th century.
- Portugal.
- Portugal--Colonies--Asia--History--16th century.
- Materia Medica--history.
- Commerce--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- History, 16th Century.
- India.
- Medical Subjects:
- Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century Colóquios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas.
- Materia Medica--history.
- Commerce--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- History, 16th Century.
- Portugal.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 279 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Palmira Fontes da Costa
- Garcia de Orta in the context of the Sephardic diaspora / Jon Arrizabalaga
- Locating Garcia de Orta in the port city of Goa and the Indian Ocean world / Michael N. Pearson
- Garcia de Orta's Colloquies : context and afterlife of a dialogue / Ines G. Zupanov
- A "pleasant banquet of words" : therapeutic virtues and alimentary consumption in Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India / Inês de Ornellas e Castro
- Between science and philology : taxonomy of errors in Orta's Colloquies / Isabel Soler and Juan Pimentel
- Cultures of inquiry, myths of empire : natural history in colonial Goa / Hugh Cagle
- Trading in medical simples and developing the new science : Garcia de Orta and his contemporaries / Harold J. Cook
- Garcia de Orta and Amato Lusitano's views on materia medica : a comparative perspective / António Manuel Lopes Andrade
- Figuring exotic nature in sixteenth-century Europe : Garcia de Orta and Clusius / Florike Egmond
- East Indies, West Indies : Garcia de Orta and the Spanish treatises on exotic materia medica / Jose Pardo Tomás
- "Enduring echoes of Garcia de Orta" : the Royal Hospital gardens in Goa and evolving hybridization in Portuguese colonial medical culture / Timothy D. Walker
- Identity and the construction of memory in representations of Garcia de Orta / Palmira Fontes da Costa
- Afterword / Andrew Cunningham.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781317098164 (electronic bk.)
- 1317098161 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90104458509
- 40025045500
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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