Palmira Fontes Da Costa

Medicine, Trade and Empire

Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context

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Produktbeschreibung

Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East and a port city that occupied a prominent role in the circuit of trade. Orta, a Portuguese physician who lived in Goa for thirty years, presents dialogues concerning more than eighty different drugs, fruits, spices, minerals and medical preparations, all of them native to India or observed in use there. This volume analyses the Colloquies, its history, context and reception, and its value to historians as a symbol of the impact of globalization in a sixteenth-century medical world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781472431233
• ISBN-10: 1472431235
• Artikelnr.: 44803633

Autorenporträt

Palmira Fontes da Costa holds a PhD in History of Science from the University of Cambridge and is Assistant Professor in Historiography and History of Science at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT). She is also a Member of the Interuniversitary Centre of History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT, Lisbon). Her areas of expertise are the history of medicine and the history of natural history during the early modern period. She is the author of The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century, 2009 and, among others, the editor, of Percursos na História do Livro Médico 1450-1800, 2011 (edited with A. Cardoso) and O Corpo Insólito: Dissertações sobre Monstros no Portugal do século XVIII, 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction, Palmira Fontes da Costa; Garcia de Orta in the
context of the Sephardic diaspora, Jon Arrizabalaga; Locating Garcia de
Orta in the port city of Goa and the Indian Ocean world, Michael Pearson;
Garcia de Orta's Colóquios: context and afterlife of a dialogue, Ines G.
upanov; A 'pleasant banquet of words': therapeutic virtues and alimentary
consumption in Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of
India, Inês de Ornellas e Castro; Between science and philology: taxonomy
of errors in Garcia de Orta's Colloquies, Isabel Soler and Juan Pimentel;
Cultures of inquiry, myths of empire: natural history in colonial Goa,
Hugh Cagle; Trading in medical simples and developing the new science: de
Orta and his contemporaries, Harold J. Cook; Garcia de Orta and Amato
Lusitano's views on Materia Medica: a comparative perspective, António
Manuel Lopes Andrade; Figuring exotic nature in 16th-century Europe: Garcia
de Orta and Carolus Clusius, Florike Egmond; East Indies, West Indies:
Garcia de Orta and the Spanish treatises on exotic Materia Medica, José
Pardo Tomás; 'Enduring echoes of Garcia de Orta': The Royal Hospital
Gardens in Goa and evolving hybridization in Portuguese colonial medical
culture, Timothy D. Walker; Identity and the construction of memory in
representations of Garcia de Orta, Palmira Fontes da Costa; Afterword,
Andrew Cunningham; Index.