Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety
of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict,
with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries,
sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the
farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and
health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures.
This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in
the early modern Spanish empire. The twelve chapters draw upon a
wide variety of sources, ranging from drama, poetry, and sermons to
broadsheets, travel accounts, chronicles, and Inquisitorial
documents; and it surveys a tremendous regional scope, from Mexico,
to the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Germany.
Together, these essays propose a new interpretation of the
circulation, reception, appropriation, and elaboration of ideas and
practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity, and
death, in a historical moment marked by continuous
cross-pollination among institutions and populations with a decided
stake in the functioning and control of the human body. Ultimately,
the volume discloses how medical cultures provided demographic,
analytical, and even geographic tools that constituted a particular
kind of map of knowledge and practice, upon which were plotted: the
local utilities of pharmacological discoveries; cures for social
unrest or decline; spaces for political and institutional struggle;
and evolving understandings of monstrousness and normativity.
Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire puts the
history of early modern Spanish medicine on a new footing in the
English-speaking world.
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