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Author Jouve Martín, José Ramón, author.

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]
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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
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Subject Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823.
Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821.
Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843.
SUBJECT Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823
Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821
Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843
Dávalos, José Manuel, 1758-1821 fast
Larrinaga, José Pastor, approximately 1750-1823 fast
Valdés, José Manuel, 1767-1843 fast
Subject 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
SUBJECT Lima (Peru) -- Race relations -- History
Peru -- Colonization -- History
Peru
Subject Peru
Peru -- Lima
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773590526
0773590528