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The Black Doctors of Colonial LimaScience, Race, and Writing in Colonial and Early Republican Peru |
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The untold story of Lima's black physicians and their role in shaping the practice of medicine in Peru.
In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent.
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: José Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; José Manuel Dávalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and José Manuel Valdés, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America.
By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution.
The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black physicians: José Pastor de Larrinaga, a surgeon of controversial medical ideas who passionately defended the right of scientific learning for Afro-Peruvians; José Manuel Dávalos, a doctor who studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and played a key role in the smallpox vaccination campaigns in Peru; and José Manuel Valdés, a multifaceted writer who became the first and only person of black ancestry to become a chief medical officer in Spanish America.
By carefully documenting their actions and writings, The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima illustrates how medicine and its related fields became areas in which the descendants of slaves found opportunities for social and political advancement, and a platform from which to engage in provocative dialogue with Enlightenment thought and social revolution.
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Part of the McGill-Queen’s/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society (number 41 in series)
244 Pages
4 b&w photos
ISBN 9780773543416
May 2014
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“The rich portrayal of these three doctors, make this book a fine contribution not only to the history of medicine in late colonial and early republican Peru, but more generally to the study of the experience of African descended peoples in the Americas.” Social History of Medicine
“This well-written book will be of interest to scholars of both the history of medicine and science in Spanish America, especially during the Enlightenment, and the history of race, social relations, and politics in late colonial and early republican Peru.” Hispanic American Historical Review
“Black Doctors of Colonial Lima is a window onto the surprising careers of Lima’s Afro-Peruvian medical professionals, but also onto the medical debates of that city’s Enlightenment intellectuals. It is a welcome addition to the literature on science in the Americas as well as the social history of race.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine
“The author’s prudent usage of archival and published sources, along with his jargon-free and straight-on writing, make this illuminating study not only required reading for scholars in critical race studies, colonial Latin American studies, and medicine, but also a valuable resource for lay persons. [This book] confirms Jouve Martín’s membership in the vanguard of scholars and teachers working in the field of Afro-Latin American studies.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
"Jouve Martín’s work offers a nuanced view of the race, ethnicity, and class differentiation in the Viceroyalty of Peru. His novel analysis is an encouragement for new research that looks for similar cases in other regions in colonial Latin American. The contribution of Jouve Martín goes beyond the borders of intellectual history and history of medical practices and invites to revisit the hypothesis of the inflexibility of racial and class categories in Latin America." Left History
“An excellent, needed, and original contribution to our understanding of the black experience in Spanish America.” Jorge Carlos Guerrero, University of Ottawa
“The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima presents a nuanced argument not only about Peruvian medical culture and Peru’s Enlightenment, but also about the politics of race and blackness during the long transition from colony to independent republic. Jouve Martín’s analysis of Peruvian physicians’ resistance to foreign medical ideas and their efforts to construct a field of medical expertise specific to Peru’s climate and geography is very interesting and engages a new and growing body of scholarship on medicine, geography, and national identity across multiple periods in the Andes and Latin America more generally.” Adam Warren, University of Washington
“The book synthesizes a range of archival documents and secondary sources to explain how three mulatos negotiated the gendered, racial, and professional expectations of their time. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima begins to untangle these exceptional, complex, and understudied narratives of nineteenth-century medicine.” Montreal Review of Books
“This well-written book will be of interest to scholars of both the history of medicine and science in Spanish America, especially during the Enlightenment, and the history of race, social relations, and politics in late colonial and early republican Peru.” Hispanic American Historical Review
“Black Doctors of Colonial Lima is a window onto the surprising careers of Lima’s Afro-Peruvian medical professionals, but also onto the medical debates of that city’s Enlightenment intellectuals. It is a welcome addition to the literature on science in the Americas as well as the social history of race.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine
“The author’s prudent usage of archival and published sources, along with his jargon-free and straight-on writing, make this illuminating study not only required reading for scholars in critical race studies, colonial Latin American studies, and medicine, but also a valuable resource for lay persons. [This book] confirms Jouve Martín’s membership in the vanguard of scholars and teachers working in the field of Afro-Latin American studies.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos
"Jouve Martín’s work offers a nuanced view of the race, ethnicity, and class differentiation in the Viceroyalty of Peru. His novel analysis is an encouragement for new research that looks for similar cases in other regions in colonial Latin American. The contribution of Jouve Martín goes beyond the borders of intellectual history and history of medical practices and invites to revisit the hypothesis of the inflexibility of racial and class categories in Latin America." Left History
“An excellent, needed, and original contribution to our understanding of the black experience in Spanish America.” Jorge Carlos Guerrero, University of Ottawa
“The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima presents a nuanced argument not only about Peruvian medical culture and Peru’s Enlightenment, but also about the politics of race and blackness during the long transition from colony to independent republic. Jouve Martín’s analysis of Peruvian physicians’ resistance to foreign medical ideas and their efforts to construct a field of medical expertise specific to Peru’s climate and geography is very interesting and engages a new and growing body of scholarship on medicine, geography, and national identity across multiple periods in the Andes and Latin America more generally.” Adam Warren, University of Washington
“The book synthesizes a range of archival documents and secondary sources to explain how three mulatos negotiated the gendered, racial, and professional expectations of their time. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima begins to untangle these exceptional, complex, and understudied narratives of nineteenth-century medicine.” Montreal Review of Books
José R. Jouve Martín is associate professor of Hispanic and Latin American studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University.
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 From Healers to Doctors 3
2 Enlightened Surgeons, Public Writers 32
3 Doctors, Citizens, Revolutionaries 60
4 A Black Protomédico in Republican Peru 94
Conclusion 127
Notes 139
Bibliography 177
Index 203
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 From Healers to Doctors 3
2 Enlightened Surgeons, Public Writers 32
3 Doctors, Citizens, Revolutionaries 60
4 A Black Protomédico in Republican Peru 94
Conclusion 127
Notes 139
Bibliography 177
Index 203
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