Doctrine and disease in the British and Spanish colonial world / edited by Kathleen Miller.
| Other author | Miller, Kathleen (Writer on English literature), editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025] |
| Description | 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The secularization of nature : Jesuit missionaries and indigenous healing knowledge in early modern Peru (1590-1710) / Matthew James Crawford -- Vaccinating in the name of the lord : the Catholic Church and the extension of smallpox vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810) / Allyson M. Poska -- John Owen, plague, and the meanings of disaster / Crawford Gribben -- Maternal bodies : religion, medicine, and politics in early America and the Atlantic world / Philippa Koch -- Printing England's plague past in New England / Kathleen Miller -- Contagious fasts : occasional worship and medical practice in England and Massachusetts Bay Colony / Catherine Reedy -- Enslaved bodies and the white imagination : (mis)perceptions of dirt eating on Jamaican plantations / Rana A. Hogarth. |
| Abstract | "Explores the intersection of religion and medicine in the early modern Atlantic world, reflecting how illness and the body were interpreted within diverse cultural and spiritual contexts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780271100074 |
| LCCN | 2025004449 |
| ISBN | 9780271099828 |
| ISBN | 0271099828 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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