Medicine and politics in colonial Peru
Subtitle: population growth and the Bourbon reforms
By: Adam Warren
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822961116
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultures of healing in colonial Lima, 1535-1780; title: Professionalizing healers and the Bourbon politics of reform, 1760-1810; title: Creole medical authority and peninsular vaccination campaigns, 1802-1810; title: Conquering the Biblical curse, 1804-1815; title: Burial reforms, piety, and popular protest, 1808-1850; title: Medical education and the end of medical reforms, 1808-1840.