The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes by Sowell, David
The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes by Sowell, David

The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes

This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his...
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SKU: 9780842028271
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Author: David Sowell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes by Sowell, David

The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes

$224.34
The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes by Sowell, David

The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes

$224.34
Author: David Sowell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked both enormous hostility and widespread adulation. A combination of narrative and analysis, the book documents Perdomo's experiences in Colombia and Ecuador and offers valuable insights into the social history of medicine during the Great Transformation in nineteenth-century Latin America. Perdomo's practice of medicine demonstrated a strong religious influence that liberals thought were incompatible with a modern, secular society. Physicians, formally trained medicos, and those who supported scientific modernization were critical of Perdomo's practice of Hispanic medicine, even though it was part of the medical system of the day. The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira is a valuable resource for courses in Latin American history and anthropology, and the history of Andean nations.

Author: David Sowell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 171
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780842028271


Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2001 pg. 94

About the Author
David Sowell is associate professor of history at Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
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