Join us for the next Iberian Connections session, tomorrow, November 16 on Zoom, 1:00-3:00pm. Register for Zoom here
Iberian Connections 8.2 | Health and Healing
In this session Nicole Parisina Basile (Columbia) will be in dialogue with the editors and the contributors for the volume Health and Healing in the Early Modern Iberian World: A Gendered Perspective (2021).
Margaret Boyle (Bowdoin), one of the editors, gives an account of the project. Emily Colbert Cairns (Salve Regina U) addresses the question of public breastfeeding. Patricia Manning (U of Kansas) connects Jesuitic ideas of health and Huarte de San Juan’s work. Pain, the uterus, and Carmelite culture are the focus for Barbara Mujica’s (Georgetown U) contribution. Sarah Owens (College of Charleston) gets into the healing cabinets of Arequipa convents, to explore what medicine was in this environment. Karen Stolley (Emory U) explores the local and the global by focusing on medical practices in the 18th century.
Event time:
Tuesday, November 16, 2021 - 1:00pm