Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World

List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing? Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College Sarah E. Owens, College of Charleston Part One: Treatment Models 1. Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid Carolin Schmitz, University of Cambridge Maríaluz López-Terrada, CSIC-Universitat Politècnica de València 2. Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal Disease Experiences in Colonial Lima Kathleen M. Kole de Peralta, Idaho State University 3. Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru Sarah E. Owens, College of Charleston 4. Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse Karen Stolley, Emory University Part Two: Representing Health 5. Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina University 6. The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California 7. Staging Women’s Healing: Theory and Practice Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College Part Three: Faith and Illness 8. Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617–1667) Patricia W. Manning, University of Kansas 9. Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University 10. Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire George A. Klaeren, University of Oxford List of Contributors Index