Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
In the 16th century, the Portuguese medicine underwent changes that reflected the experimentalism provided by the Iberian overseas expansion. Inheritors of the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition, Portuguese doctors insisted on the reproductive functions of women’s bodies and created explanations and reme...
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Iberoamericana / Vervuert
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2453 |