Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific Inquiry in Early Colonial Spanish America
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 77868
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- ISBN
- 9781789622508
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/53191/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 82,500-word book gathers 12 years of research on rare archival materials dispersed in the US, Spain, France, Mexico and the UK. It brings together the history of medicine and the history of literature. It maps how period ideas on anatomy and surgery helped to lay the foundations of Latin American cultures, and placing medical books within literary history, highlighting their significance as some of the earliest texts in a European vernacular printed in the Americas.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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