Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba

In the 16th century, the Portuguese medicine underwent changes that reflected the experimentalism provided by the Iberian overseas expansion. Inheritors of the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition, Portuguese doctors insisted on the reproductive functions of women’s bodies and created explanations and reme...

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Main Author:	Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2019-07-01
Series:	Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal
Subjects:	medicine women colonial brazil captaincy of paraíba
Online Access:	https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2453

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spelling	doaj-fddc6d1b8fa44537af1a6bba3b1774c72020-11-25T02:01:37ZengIberoamericana / VervuertIberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal1577-33882255-520X2019-07-01197114517210.18441/ibam.19.2019.71.145-1721996Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of ParaíbaLuisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho SilvaIn the 16th century, the Portuguese medicine underwent changes that reflected the experimentalism provided by the Iberian overseas expansion. Inheritors of the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition, Portuguese doctors insisted on the reproductive functions of women’s bodies and created explanations and remedies for problems related to menstruation and childbirth. This tradition was transplanted and adapted to Brazil, where it was confronted with new practices of cures. In this article, I will analyze the ways of thinking the body of women in this colonial encounter based on the official discourse of medical treaties. Afterwards, I confront this discourse with the medical practices used in the Captaincy of Paraíba, based on manuscripts of Portuguese and Brazilian archives.https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2453medicinewomencolonial brazilcaptaincy of paraíba
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author_facet	Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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title	Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
title_short	Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
title_full	Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
title_fullStr	Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
title_full_unstemmed	Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba
title_sort	medical knowledge and the body of women in colonial brazil: the medical tradition of the metropolis in the captaincy of paraíba
publisher	Iberoamericana / Vervuert
series	Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal
issn	1577-3388 2255-520X
publishDate	2019-07-01
description	In the 16th century, the Portuguese medicine underwent changes that reflected the experimentalism provided by the Iberian overseas expansion. Inheritors of the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition, Portuguese doctors insisted on the reproductive functions of women’s bodies and created explanations and remedies for problems related to menstruation and childbirth. This tradition was transplanted and adapted to Brazil, where it was confronted with new practices of cures. In this article, I will analyze the ways of thinking the body of women in this colonial encounter based on the official discourse of medical treaties. Afterwards, I confront this discourse with the medical practices used in the Captaincy of Paraíba, based on manuscripts of Portuguese and Brazilian archives.
topic	medicine women colonial brazil captaincy of paraíba
url	https://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2453
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Medical Knowledge and the Body of Women in Colonial Brazil: The Medical Tradition of the Metropolis in the Captaincy of Paraíba

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