Searching for the secrets of nature : the life and works of Dr. Francisco Hernández
This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernandez (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.
Print Book, English, 2000
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 2000
XVI, 229 p. ill. 29 cm
9780804739641, 0804739641
1014749329
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editorial methods Chronology Introduction 1. The world of Dr Francisco Hernandez Dora B. Weiner 2. Philip II: imperial obligations and scientific vision Peter O'Malley Pierson Part I. The Intellectual Milieu of Hernandez: 3. The classical tradition in Renaissance Spain and new trends in philology, medicine and materia medica Rafael Chabran 4. Francisco Hernandez, Renaissance man Simon Varey 5. Hernandez in Me;xico: exile and censorship? Carmen Benito-Vessels Part II. Medical Knowledge and Practices in New Spain: 6. Regulation of medical practitioners in the age of Francisco Hernandez John Jay Tepaske 7. Shelter and care for natives and colonists: hospitals in sixteenth-century New Spain Guenter B. Risse 8. Illness, epidemics, and displaced classes in sixteenth-century New Spain Elsa Malvido 9. Anthropology, reason, and the dictates of faith in the Antiquities of Francisco Hernandez David A. Boruchoff Entr'acte Rafael Chabran and Simon Varey Part III. The Dissemination of Hernandez's Knowledge: 10. The reception of American drugs in Europe, 1500-1650 J. Worth Estes 11. The contribution of Hernandez to European botany and materia medica Jose M. Lopez Pinero and Jose Parso Tomas 12. Hernandez in the Netherlands and England Rafael Chabran and Simon Varey 13. Hernandez and Spanish painting in the seventeenth century Mari;a Jose Lopez Terrada 14. Globalizing the Natural History Jaime Vilchis 15. The circulation of the work of Hernandez in nineteenth-century Spain Leoncio Lopez-Ocon Part IV. Postscript: Continuing Traditions of Mexican Medicine: 16. Latino Catholic civilization: patterns of health and demography David Hayes-Bautista 17. The popular legacy of Francisco Hernandez Simon Varey and Rafael Chabran Glossary Index.