Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire

As the Spanish empire grew, cultural ideas and practices related to sickness and health, sex, monstrosity and death came into contact and conflict. Old ideas took root in new soil, others were stamped out, and new cultures arose. This collection examines the dynamic context in which medical cultures circulated to propose new interpretations of the reception, appropriation, and elaboration of medical cultures in the vast territories controlled by the Spanish monarchy.

John Slater is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California - Davis, USA. Maríaluz López-Terrada is Senior Researcher (Investigadora científica) at the Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero, of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Valencia), Spain. José Pardo-Tomás is Senior Researcher at the Department of History of Science in the Institucio 'Milà i Fontanals' (CSIC, Barcelona), Spain.

Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire