Title The black doctors of colonial Lima : science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru / José R. Jouve Martín

Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 209 pages) : illustrations, portraits Series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41 McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ; 41. Contents Introduction -- From Healers to Doctors -- Enlightened Surgeons, Public Writers -- Doctors, Citizens, Revolutionaries -- A Black Protomédico in Republican Peru -- Conclusion Summary In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: José Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; José Manuel Dávalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and José Manuel Valdés, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America. By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-202) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823. Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821. Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843. Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823 Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821 Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843 Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821 Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823 Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843 Social medicine -- Peru -- Lima -- History Science -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Lima -- History Medical writing -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Lima -- History Race -- Social aspects -- Peru -- Lima -- History Physicians -- Peru -- Lima -- History Surgeons -- Peru -- Lima -- History Black people -- Peru -- Lima -- History Medicine -- History. Medicine -- Peru -- Lima -- History History of Medicine Health Policy -- history Delivery of Health Care -- history history of medicine. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. Medicine Black people Colonization Physicians Race relations Race -- Social aspects Science -- Social aspects Social medicine Surgeons Medical care. Lima (Peru) -- Race relations -- History Peru -- Colonization -- History Peru Peru Peru -- Lima Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773590526 0773590528

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