Marvels of medicine : literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pérez Marín, Yarí (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Series:Liverpool Latin American studies ; 21.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Introduction Medical books and colonial Latin American literature Chapter 1 The surgeon's secrets: the medical travel narrative of Pedro Arias de Benavides Chapter 2 Irreconcilable differences?: anatomy, physiology and the New World body Chapter 3 Weakening the sex: the medicalization of female gender identity in New Spain Chapter 4 Contested medical knowledge and regional self-fashioning Conclusion Epilogue Works cited.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781789622676
1789622670