Title Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 279 pages) : illustrations Series History of medicine in context History of medicine in context. Contents 1. Garcia de Orta in the context of the Sephardic diaspora / Jon Arrizabalaga -- 2. Locating Garcia de Orta in the port city of Goa and the Indian Ocean world / Michael N. Pearson -- 3. Garcia de Orta's Colloquies : context and afterlife of a dialogue / Ines G. Zupanov -- 4. A 'pleasant banquet of words' : therapeutic virtues and alimentary consumption in Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India / In?s de Ornellas e Castro -- 5. Between science and philology : taxonomy of errors in Orta's Colloquies / Isabel Soler and Juan Pimentel -- 6. Cultures of inquiry, myths of empire : natural history in colonial Goa / Hugh Cagle -- 7. Trading in medical simples and developing the new science : Garcia de Orta and his contemporaries / Harold J. Cook -- 8. Garcia de Orta and Amato Lusitano's views on materia medica : a comparative perspective / Ant?nio Manuel Lopes Andrade -- 9. Figuring exotic nature in sixteenth-century Europe : Garcia de Orta and Clusius / Florike Egmond -- 10. East Indies, West Indies : Garcia de Orta and the Spanish treatises on exotic materia medica / Jose Pardo Tom?s -- 11. 'Enduring echoes of Garcia de Orta' : the Royal Hospital gardens in Goa and evolving hybridization in Portuguese colonial medical culture / Timothy D. Walker -- 12. Identity and the construction of memory in representations of Garcia de Orta / Palmira Fontes da Costa Notes Originally published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century. Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century. Col?quios dos simples e drogas e coisas medicinais da India e de algumas frutas Orta, Garcia de, active 16th century. Materia medica, Vegetable -- India -- History -- 16th century Medicine -- India -- History -- 16th century Medicine -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century Naturalists -- Portugal -- Biography Commerce. Materia medica, Vegetable. Medicine. Naturalists. Portuguese colonies. Indian Ocean -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century Portugal -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 16th century Portugal -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century Velha Goa (India) -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century Asia. India -- Velha Goa. India. Indian Ocean. Portugal. Genre/Form Biographies. History. Form Electronic book Author Costa, Palmira Fontes da. ISBN 1315594722 1317098153 1317098161 131709817X 1472431235 9781315594729 9781317098157 9781317098164 9781317098171 9781472431233

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