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Pestilence and headcolds: encountering illness in colonial Mexico
Sherry Fields-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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CHAPTER ONE Pestilence and Headcolds
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[Intro]
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Ancient Mesoamerica
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Colonial Mexico
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[Intro]
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“La mayor lástima del mundo”—Epidemic Illness
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“Quebrantada de salud”:—Endemic Illness
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Achaques y indisposiciones: Everyday Ailments
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CHAPTER TWO Doctors, Bleeders, and Virgins
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[Intro]
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Healers in Mesoamerica
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Healers in New Spain
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[Intro]
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Licensed Practitioners
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Physicians
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Surgeons
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Pharmacists
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Midwives
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Unlicensed Practitioners
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[Intro]
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Curanderos
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The Church and Divine Healers
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CHAPTER THREE The Whole of Our Flesh
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[Intro]
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A Slippery Earth
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Picturing the Body
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Deities and Dwellers of Dangerous Places
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Finding Equilibrium
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CHAPTER FOUR Managing the Humors
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[Intro]
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European Origins: Humoralism
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Hazardous Environments and Risky Behavior
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Invasive Airs
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Miasma
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“Mal orden y mala regla”—Lifestyle
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CHAPTER FIVE Encountering Illness
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[Intro]
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Sickness Culture
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Miraculous Medicine
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By Way of Conclusion
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Notes
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Introduction
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CHAPTER ONE Pestilence and Headcolds
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CHAPTER TWO Doctors, Bleeders, and Virgins
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CHAPTER THREE The Whole of Our Flesh
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CHAPTER FOUR Managing the Humors
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CHAPTER FIVE Encountering Illness
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Abbreviations
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Bibliography
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Print Resources
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Electronic Resources
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Glossary
HEB Id | Title | Authors | Publication Information |
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Problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias. | de Cardenas, Juan. | Alianza Editorial, 1988. | |
Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España, Vol. 1. | de Ciudad Real, Antonio. | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1993. | |
Tratado curioso y docto de las grandezas de la Nueva España, Vol. 2. | de Ciudad Real, Antonio. | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1993. | |
The Art of Pharmacy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Mexico. | de Vos, Paula Susan. | Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. | |
Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico 1767-1831. | Hernandez Saenz, Luz Maria. | Peter Lang, 1997. | |
heb06429.0001.001 | The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Profession in the Spanish Empire. | Lanning, John Tate, and John Jay Tepaske. | Durham: Duke University Press, 1985. |
Book of Bodily Exercise. | Mendez, Cristobal. | Elizabeth Licht, 1960. |
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Published: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
- 9780231142403 (hardcover)
- 9780231512237 (ebook)