Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

A Gendered Perspective

AvSarah E. Owens,Margaret E. Boyle

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Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-07
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487531713
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Toronto Iberic

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Sarah E. Owens is a professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and Director of First Year Experience at the College of Charleston. Margaret E. Boyle is an associate professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.

Recensioner i media

"These essays would stand as independent contributions, yet they can be read comparatively to advantage, as shown in this volume. Well researched yet accessible, they represent a full range of perspectives on health and healing in the early modern Iberian world."- S. L. Kwosek, South Carolina State University (CHOICE) "These essays are individually enlightening and work well in conjunction with one another. The volume is overall nicely cohesive and offers many useful new perspectives. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines." - Kristy Wilson Bowers, University of Missouri (Nuncius)

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing?Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin CollegeSarah E. Owens, College of CharlestonPart One: Treatment Models1. Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century MadridCarolin Schmitz, University of CambridgeMaríaluz López-Terrada, CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València 2. Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal Disease Experiences in Colonial LimaKathleen M. Kole de Peralta, Idaho State University3. Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, PeruSarah E. Owens, College of Charleston4. Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse Karen Stolley, Emory UniversityPart Two: Representing Health5. Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern SpainEmily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina University6. The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern StageSherry Velasco, University of Southern California7. Staging Women’s Healing: Theory and PracticeMargaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin CollegePart Three: Faith and Illness8. Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617–1667)Patricia W. Manning, University of Kansas9. Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and GalenismBarbara Mujica, Georgetown University10. Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth-Century Spanish EmpireGeorge A. Klaeren, University of OxfordList of ContributorsIndex