Medicine

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

Convent ledgers from colonial Are­quipa, Peru, reveal that female reli­gious com­mu­nities spent large sums of money on a wide variety of medical ingre­dients in the care of their members.

Tra­di­tional medical men tended to focus pri­marily on the body, espe­cially, when writing about women, on the uterus, as the primary source of physical and psy­cho­logical discomfort.

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.