Searching for the secrets of nature : the life and works of Dr. Francisco Hernández /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Varey, Simon, 1951-, Chabrán, Rafael, Weiner, Dora B.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Hernández, Francisco, > 1517-1587. Natural history > Mexico. Materia medica > Mexico. Plants, Medicinal > Mexico. History, 16th Century > Mexico. Literature, Modern > Mexico. Natural History > Mexico.

Table of Contents:

The world of Dr. Francisco Hernández / Dora B. Weiner
Philip II: imperial obligations and scientific vision / Peter O'Malley Pierson
The classical tradition in Renaissance Spain and new trends in philology, medicine, and materia medica / Rafael Chabrán
Francisco Hernández, Renaissance man / Simon Varey
Hernández in México: exile and censorship? / Carmen Benito-Vessels
Regulation of medical practitioners in the age of Francisco Hernández / John Jay Tepaske
Shelter and care for natives and colonists: hospitals in sixteenth-century New Spain / Guenter B. Risse
Illness, epidemics, and displaced classes in sixteenth-century New Spain / Elsa Malvido
Anthropology, reason, and the dictates of faith in the Antiquities of Francisco Hernández / David A. Boruchoff
Entr'acte / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey
The reception of American drugs in Europe, 1500-1650 / J. Worth Estes
The contribution of Hernández to European botany and materia medica / José M. López Piñero and José Pardo Tomás
Hernández in the Netherlands and England / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey
Hernández and Spanish painting in the seventeenth century / María José López Terrada
Globalizing the Natural history / Jaime Vilchis
The circulation of the work of Hernández in nineteenth-century Spain / Leoncio López-Ocón
Latino Catholic civilization: patterns of health and demography / David Hayes-Bautista
The popular legacy of Francisco Hernández / Simon Varey and Rafael Chabrán.