Pestilence and headcolds
Subtitle: encountering illness in colonial Mexico
By: Sherry Fields.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780231142403
Subjects: Medicine -- Mexico -- History; Imperialism -- Health aspects -- Mexico -- History; Social medicine -- Mexico -- History; Sociology, Medical -- history -- Mexico; Attitude to Health -- ethnology -- Mexico; Colonialism -- history -- Mexico; Cultural Diversity -- Mexico; History, Modern 1601- -- Mexico; Religion and Medicine -- Mexico
Description: "Because of its cultural diversity, colonial Mexico is an especially rich setting for the exploration of premodern concepts of health and disease. This book draws on a variety of sources to explore the ways in which the inhabitants of colonial Mexico interpreted their health. Sherry Fields thoroughly examines such contemporary writings as native codices, travelers' accounts, chronicles, newspapers, and personal correspondences, as well as home remedy guides written for laypeople. She also considers painted ex-votos from the colonial period, not only as a comment on the illness experience in general, but also as a vehicle for exploring the connection between illness and religious faith."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pestilence and headcolds; title: Doctors, bleeders, and virgins; title: The whole of our flesh; title: Managing the humors; title: Encountering illness.