{"product_id":"making-medicines-in-early-colonial-lima-peru-apothecaries-science-and-society-9789004350632","title":"Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, Science and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on extensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Italy, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products, prepared medicines, and found their place in society. In the book, Newson argues that apothecaries had the potential to be innovators in science, especially in the New World where they encountered new environments and diverse healing traditions. However, it shows that despite experimental tendencies among some apothecaries, they generally adhered to traditional humoral practices and imported materia medica from Spain rather than adopt native plants or exploit the region’s rich mineral resources. This adherence was not due to state regulation, but reflected the entrenchment of humoral beliefs in popular thought and their promotion by the Church and Inquisition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thanks to Making Medicines, scholars can now approach such issues with far greater clarity and specificity than they could have otherwise. The book will be a key point of reference for future studies not only on the Viceroyalty of Peru but in colonial Latin America.\" - Hugh Cagle, in: Journal of Latin American Studies 51:1 (2019): 233-235  \"This rich social history promises to make Spanish colonial pharmacies both comprehensible and engaging. Students of history, science, technology, and medicine will appreciate its premodern perspective and the complex layers connecting religion, society, and medical practice. This book is not only at the forefront of histories investigating medicine and society in colonial Latin America, but it is also a model in the balance of archival work, analysis, and accessible prose.\" - Kathleen Kole de Peralta, in: The Americas, 76:1 (2019): 171-173  \"[E]n mi opinión, Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima es una contribución indispensable que nos permite profundizar sobre la relación entre el poder y el saber; entre dominio de larga distancia y poderes locales. Una contribución que nos convoca a emprender nuevos estudios comparativos entre Perú y la Nueva España que nos ayuden a revelar por qué, a pesar de que ambos territorios se rigieron por la misma cultura jurídica española, construyeron culturas médicas distintas, pero, sobre todo, reconocer que en los espacios coloniales se verificaron diversas culturas médicas que mantuvieron intercambios permanentes, aunque esta diversidad no siempre resulte obvia o visible a través de la documentación.\" - Angélica Morales Sarabia, in: Dynamis, 39:1 (2019): 235-266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations  1 Medicines: Empire, Science and Society  Medicine and Empire  Practices of Medicine   Medicine and Science   Practitioners of Medicine   Prospectus   2 Learning to Make Medicines  Makers of Medicines   Education and Practical Training   Apothecaries from Spain   University Medical Education   Preparatory Schooling   Educational Opportunities for Non-Elites   On the Job Training   Examinations and Licences   Female Medical Learning   Conclusion   3 The Medicines Business  Acquiring a Botica   The Premises   Employing Pharmacy Workers    Indian Forced Labourers   Black Pharmacy Workers   Running a Pharmacy   Conclusion   4 Trading Medicines and Materia Medica  Organisation of the Transatlantic Trade   Apothecaries, Pepperers and Spicers   The Transatlantic Trade in Materia Medica   The Intercolonial Trade in Materia Medica    Acquiring Materia Medica Locally    Conclusion   5 Selecting Materia Medica   Humoralism   Scholarly Scientific Explorations   Paracelsianism   Maintaining Medical Orthodoxy   The Regulation of Pharmacies   The Impact of the Counter Reformation and Inquisition    The Circulation of Medical Texts   Conclusion   6 Making Medicines   Types of Medicines   Preparing Medicines   Pharmacy Methods and Equipment   Categories of Medicines    Using Purgatives and Emetics   Using Native Plants   A Few Experiments    Explaining the Failure to Adopt Native Botanical Materia Medica    A Medical Marketplace?    Using Minerals and Chemicals   Conclusion   7 The Social World of Apothecaries   The Status of the Medical Profession   The Middling Professional Status of the Apothecary   Criticisms of the Medical Profession   The Christian Calling of an Apothecary   Projecting Professionalism   Conclusion   8 Persistent Practices   Accounting for the Prevalence of Humoral Medicine   Accounting for the Slow Adoption of Experimental Methods   Part 2: Appendices  Appendix A Books Shipped from Spain by the Apothecary Juan Sánchez in 1591   Appendix B List of Materia Medica Found in Pharmacies in Spain and Lima   Appendix C Books Shipped from Spain to Doctor Melchor de Amusco in Nombre de Dios, 1584   Glossary  Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210730561879,"sku":"9789004350632","price":114.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-medicines-in-early-colonial-lima-peru-apothecaries-science-and-society-9789004350632","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}