Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective , by Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens, eds.

• Autores: Kristy Wilson Bowers
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 38, Nº. 1, 2023, págs. 205-207
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Margaret E. Boyle and Sarah E. Owens, eds., Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective . 288 pp. 12 b&w ill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781487505189.

    This interdisciplinary volume contains ten excellent studies at the intersection of health and gender. Examining patients, healers, and health advocates in a variety of contexts, these essays use lenses of gender, race, class, and ability to provide new insights into early modern health beliefs and practices. The essays in this volume both deepen and broaden our understanding of how health was understood, challenged, and restored by women (and men) throughout the Spanish world. The emphasis here is on the plurality of experiences across the early modern era (1500 to 1800), in contexts including both peninsular Spain and New World colonial territories.