Title: Cristãos-novos e seus descendentes na medicina brasileira, 1500-1850 /
Authors: Herson, Bella.
Date: 1996
Publisher: Edusp,
Physical description: 422 p. : facsims. ; 26 cm.
Language: Portuguese
LC classification: R
Abstract: "Study of doctors and medical practices in colonial Brazil claims most doctors were New Christians"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subject headings (LCSH): Christian converts from Judaism--Brazil--History.; Crypto-Jews--Iberian Peninsula--Brazil--History.; Inquisition--Brazil--History.; Jews--Brazil--History.; Marrano physicians--Brazil--History.; Medicine--Brazil--History.; Medicine--Brazil--Religious aspects--Christianity.; Medicine--Brazil--Religious aspects--Judaism.