Cristian Berco

From Body to Community

Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

Using the sole surviving admissions book for Toledo, Spain’s Hospital de Santiago, Cristian Berco reconstructs the lives of men and women afflicted with the pox by tracing their experiences before, during, and after their hospitalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442649620
• ISBN-10: 1442649623
• Artikelnr.: 42697528

Autorenporträt

Cristian Berco is the Canada Research Chair in Social and Cultural Difference and a professor in the Department of History at Bishop’s University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Getting Sick: Signs, Sin, and Social Worth
Chapter 2. Encounters of the Third Kind: Medical Assumptions and Patients
Chapter 3. Melting Pot: The Hospital de Santiago’s Patients
Chapter 4. Safeguarding Reputation: Gender, Hospitalization, and Textiles
Chapter 5. Between Body and Soul: Treatment at the Hospital de Santiago
Chapter 6. Getting Hitched: Pox, Sexuality and Marriage
Chapter 7. Making Ends Meet: Disease, Work, and Family
Chapter 8. Playing Nice with Others: Pox and Community
Conclusion