Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

In New Spain, the professionalization of medicine followed the same pattern as in Europe and was prompted by similar intellectual and political factors. As with their European colleagues, the local medical elite of the late eighteenth century was greatly influenced by the Enlightenment, working tire...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernandez-Saenz, Luz Maria.
Other Authors: Meyer, Michael C.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1993
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186479