Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Institute of Modern Languages Research
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House
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London WC1E 7HU
The Genesis of Natural History and Ethnology in Colonial Peru
My dissertation project focuses on astrological medicine in early modern colonial Americas, particularly Peru. Through an analysis of printed sources published in Spanish America mainly in the 1600s and a comparison with other Iberian and European texts, my thesis explores how astrology, far from being considered a pseudo-science, played instead a central role in defining and informing medical practices in both Iberia and colonial Americas where traditional Hippocratic medicine encountered a new climate, a new natural environment and a new 'materia medica'.
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