Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru - Apothecaries, Science and Society

Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima examines how apothecaries in Lima were trained, ran their businesses, traded medicinal products and prepared medicines; thereby throwing light on the relationship between medicine and empire, and the development of early modern science.

About the author

Linda A. Newson, PhD (1971) in Geography, University College London, is Director of the Institute of Latin Americana Studies, University of London. She is author of six monographs and two edited volumes, including (with Susie Minchin) From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century (Brill, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Linda A Newson, Linda A. Newson
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2017
• EAN: 9789004350632
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35063-2
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous