Description: Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru : Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms, Paperback by Warren, Adam, ISBN 0822961113, ISBN-13 9780822961116, Brand New, Free shipping in the US By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry, and it had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru,Adam Warrenpresents a groundbreaking study of the primacy placed on medical care to generate population growth during this era. The Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century shaped many of the political, economic, and social interests of Spain and its colonies. In Peru, local elites saw the reforms as an opportunity to positively transform society and its conceptions of medicine and medical institutions in the name of the Crown. Creole physicians in particular, took advantage of Bourbon reforms to wrest control of medical treatment away from the Catholic Church, establish their own medical expertise, and create a new, secular medical culture. They asserted their new influence by treating smallpox and leprosy, by reforming medical education, and by introducing hygienic routines into local funeral rites, among other practices. Later, during the early years of independence, government officials began to usurp the power of physicians and shifted control of medical care back to the church. Creole doctors, without the support of the empire, lost much of their influence, and medical reforms ground to a halt. As Warren’s study reveals, despite falling in and out of political favor, Bourbon reforms and creole physicians were instrumental to the founding of modern medicine in Peru, and their influence can still be felt today.
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Book Title: Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru : Population Growth and th
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru : Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Public Health, Demography, Immunology, Europe / Spain & Portugal, General, History, Latin America / South America, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Medical, History
Author: Adam Warren
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Pitt Latin American Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
