{"product_id":"medicine-and-politics-in-colonial-peru-book-adam-warren-9780822961116","title":"Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru","description":"By the end of the  eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving  silver industry and had barely begun to recover from massive population  losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely  believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing the  labor force and maintaining as many healthy workers as possible. In Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru,  Adam Warren presents a groundbreaking study of the primacy placed on  medical care to generate population growth during this era.  The Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century shaped many of the  political, economic, and social interests of Spain and its colonies. In  Peru, local elites saw the reforms as an opportunity to positively  transform society and its conceptions of medicine and medical  institutions in the name of the Crown. Creole physicians, in particular,  took advantage of Bourbon reforms to wrest control of medical treatment  away from the Catholic Church, establish their own medical expertise,  and create a new, secular medical culture. They asserted their new  influence by treating smallpox and leprosy, by reforming medical  education, and by introducing hygienic routines into local funeral  rites, among other practices.  Later, during the early years of independence, government  officials began to usurp the power of physicians and shifted control of  medical care back to the church. Creole doctors, without the support of  the empire, lost much of their influence, and medical reforms ground to a  halt.  As Warren’s study reveals, despite falling in and out of  political favor, Bourbon reforms and creole physicians were instrumental  to the founding of modern medicine in Peru, and their influence can  still be felt today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50029767491857,"sku":"CIN0822961113G","price":5.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740340416785,"sku":"NIN9780822961116","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822961113.jpg?v=1762422932","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/medicine-and-politics-in-colonial-peru-book-adam-warren-9780822961116","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}