Marvels of medicine : literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Liverpool Latin American studies ;
21. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789622676 1789622670 |