[Rezension von: Kathleen Miller, Hrsg., Doctrine & disease in the British and Spanish colonial world]
Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World, edited by Kathleen Miller, brings together a wide-ranging set of historical and literary essays that explore the ties between medicine and religion across the early modern British and Spanish empires. The volume’s geographic and confess...
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | English |
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08 January 2026
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Social history of medicine
Year: 2026, Pages: 1-2 |
| ISSN: | 1477-4666 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkaf121 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaf121
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| Author Notes: | Stefanie Gänger |
| Summary: | Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World, edited by Kathleen Miller, brings together a wide-ranging set of historical and literary essays that explore the ties between medicine and religion across the early modern British and Spanish empires. The volume’s geographic and confessional scope is deliberately expansive, stretching from England to the West Indies and the Spanish American viceroyalties. While its emphasis unmistakably is on Puritan, Protestant, and Catholic religion, some chapters attend to how other societies - the enslaved on Jamaican plantations, or Quechua-speaking communities in viceregal Peru - understood and endured illness and bodily suffering. The result is a variegated collection that repeatedly underscores a central point: in the seventeenth, and long into the ‘enlightened’ eighteenth century, disease and healing were inseparable from religious practice and meaning. |
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| Item Description: | Veröffentlicht: 08. Januar 2026 Gesehen am 09.03.2026 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1477-4666 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hkaf121 |