Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

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Contents: Introduction, John Slater, Jose Pardo-Tomas and Marialuz Lopez-Terrada. Part 1 Spain and the New World of Medical Cultures: The culture of Peyote: between divination and disease in early modern New Spain, Angelica Morales Sarabia 'Antiguamente vivian mas sanos que ahora': explanations of native mortality in the Relaciones Geograficas de Indias, Jose Pardo-Tomas The blood of the dragon: alchemy and natural history in Nicolas Monardes's Historia medicinal, Ralph Bauer. Part 2 Itineraries of Spanish Medicine: 'From where they are now to whence they came from': news about health and disease in New Spain (1550-1615), Mauricio Sanchez-Menchero Literary anthropologies and Pedro Gonzalez, 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 Paez de Castro (1545-1552), Elisa Andretta. Part 3 Textual Cultures in Conflict, Competition, and Circulation: 'Offspring of the mind': childbirth and its perils in early modern Spanish literature, Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas 'Sallow-faced girl, either it's love or you've been eating clay': the representation of illness in the Golden Age theater, Marialuz Lopez-Terrada The dramatic culture of astrological medicine in early modern Spain, Tayra M.C. Lanuza-Navarro The theological drama of chymical medicine in early modern Spain, John Slater. Epilogue: the difference that made Spain, the difference that Spain made, William Eamon Bibliography Index.