STEP - Science and Technology in the European Periphery

Of *special relevance* to STEP readers is the Introduction to this special issue, by Harold J. Cook:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836217/pdf/medhissuppl-29-0...

HEALTH AND MEDICINE IN HAPSBURG SPAIN: AGENTS, PRACTICES, REPRESENTATIONS
Teresa Huguet-Termes, Jon Arrizabalaga and Harold J Cook (eds)
Medical History, Supplement no 29
London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 2009
ISBN 978-0-85484-128-8

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/185601/

CONTENTS

Introduction
Harold J Cook

Medical Pluralism in the Iberian Kingdoms: The Control of Extra-academic Practitioners
in Valencia
María Luz López Terrada

La Mayson pour Distiller des Eaües at El Escorial: Alchemy and Medicine at the Court of
Philip II, 1556-1598
Mar Rey Bueno

Healing Virtue: Saludadores versus Witches in Early Modern Spain
María Tausiet

Madrid Hospitals and Welfare in the Context of the Hapsburg Empire
Teresa Huguet-Termes

Medicine and the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Spain
Mónica Bolufer

Medical Ideals in the Sephardic Diaspora: Rodrigo de Castro's Portrait of the Perfect
Physician in early Seventeenth-Century Hamburg
Jon Arrizabalaga

Contributors

Bibliography

Index