| Descript |
xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
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New hispanisms : cultural and literary studies |
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New hispanisms
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index |
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Introduction / John Slater, José Pardo-Tomás, and Maríaluz López-Terrada -- The culture of peyote : between divination and disease in Early modern New Spain / Angélica Morales Sarabia -- "Antiguamente vivían más sanos que ahora" : explanations of native mortality in the Relaciones geográficas de Indias / José Pardo-Tomás -- The blood of the dragon : alchemy and natural history in Nicolás Monardes's Historia medicinal / Ralph Bauer -- "From where they are now to whence they came from" : news about health and disease in New Spain (1550-1615) / Mauricio Sánchez-Menchero -- Literary anthropologies and Pedro González, the "Wild Man" of Tenerife / M.A. Katritzky -- The medical cultures of "the Spaniards of Italy" : scientific communication, learned practices, and medicine in the correspondence of Juan Páez de Castro (1545-1552) / Elisa Andretta -- "Offspring of the mind" : childbirth and its perils in Early modern Spanish literature / Enrique García Santo-Tomás -- "Sallow-faced girl, either it's love or you've been eating clay" : the representation of illness in the Golden age theater / Maríaluz López-Terrada -- The dramatic culture of astrological medicine in Early modern Spain / Tayra M.C. Lanuza Navarro -- The theological drama of chemical medicine in Early modern Spain / John Slater -- Epilogue: the difference that was Spain, the difference that Spain made / William Eamon |
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Medicine -- Spain -- History
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Medicine in Literature -- Spain
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History of Medicine -- Spain
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600 -- Spain
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| Alt Author |
Slater, John, 1972- editor
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López Terrada, María Luz, editor
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Pardo Tomás, José, editor
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