Book ID: CBB001553365

The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima: Science, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru (2014)

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Jouve Martín, José Ramón (Author)


McGill-Queen's University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xxvii + 209 pp.; ill.
Language: English

In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jose Jouve Martin 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: Jose Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; Jose Manuel Davalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and Jose Manuel Valdes, 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Michael Joseph
Alessandro Menin
Berry, Chelsea
Bentancor, Orlando
Graf, Andrea
Viti, Ludovico Pacino
Concepts
Colonialism
Medicine and race
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Spain, colonies
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Enlightenment
20th century
Places
Peru
India
Spain
Latin America
Bolivia
Suriname
Institutions
East India Company (English)
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