Healing

This is the third endeavour of Maríluz and Carolin of delving together into inquisi­torial archives  to trace irregular healers and their patients.

In my essay, “Leche and lagar­tijas: injecting the local into eighteenth-century Spanish American medical dis­course,” I explorehow European and indigenous medical cul­tures that came into contact in Spain’s sixteenth- and seventeenth-century global empire con­tinued their inter­ac­tions well into the late colonial period through an ongoing nego­ti­ation of the local and the global.

Bar­tolomé de Car­denas “Bermejo’s” oil painting, Virgen de la leche, c.

We ini­tiated the book within a US aca­demic context, and the rising con­sumer con­sciousness around “wellness” products and marketing.