From body to community : venereal disease and society in Baroque Spain / Cristian Berco.

"Known in early modern Europe by many names--the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis--the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as...

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Main Author: Berco, Cristian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Series:Toronto Iberic.
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Table of Contents:
  • Getting sick: signs, sin, and social worth
  • Encounters of the third kind: medical assumptions and patients
  • Melting pot: the Hospital de Santiago's patients
  • Safeguarding reputation: gender, hospitalization, and textiles
  • Between body and soul: treatment at the Hospital de Santiago
  • Getting hitched: pox, sexuality and marriage
  • Making ends meet: disease, work, and family
  • Playing nice with others: pox and community.