Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing?
Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College
Sarah E. Owens, College of Charleston

Part One: Treatment Models

1. Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid
Carolin Schmitz, University of Cambridge
Maríaluz López-Terrada, CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València

2. Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal Disease Experiences in Colonial Lima
Kathleen M. Kole de Peralta, Idaho State University

3. Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru
Sarah E. Owens, College of Charleston

4. Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse
Karen Stolley, Emory University

Part Two: Representing Health

5. Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain
Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina University

6. The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage
Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California

7. Staging Women’s Healing: Theory and Practice
Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College

Part Three: Faith and Illness

8. Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617–1667)
Patricia W. Manning, University of Kansas

9. Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism
Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University

10. Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
George A. Klaeren, University of Oxford

List of Contributors
Index