Table of Contents:
  • Cultures of healing in colonial Lima, 1535-1780
  • Professionalizing healers and the Bourbon politics of reform, 1760-1810
  • Creole medical authority and peninsular vaccination campaigns, 1802-1810
  • Conquering the Biblical curse, 1804-1815
  • Burial reforms, piety, and popular protest, 1808-1850
  • Medical education and the end of medical reforms, 1808-1840.