Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing 1
6. Part One: Treatment Models
7. Chapter One Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid 21
8. Chapter Two Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal 52
9. Chapter Three Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru 69
10. Chapter Four Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse1 87
11. Part Two: Representing Health
12. Chapter Five Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain 109
13. Chapter Six The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage 136
14. Chapter Seven Staging Women’s Healing: Theory and Practice 154
15. Part Three: Faith and Illness
16. Chapter Eight Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617–1667) 175
17. Chapter Nine Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism 195
18. Chapter Ten Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth- Century Spanish Empire 219
19. Contributors 241
20. Index 245