[Non-conventional medical practice in the city of Valencia in the 16th and 17th centuries].
The aim of this study is to provide an example of medical pluralism and of the different resources against disease available to the inhabitants of the city of Valencia in the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century. The work considers conventional health care and in particular details of extra-academic medical practices, i.e. both empirical and religious alternatives that were neither regulated nor based on Galenism. The study analyses examples of folk healing, the sale of miracle cures and recourse to the saints or spells, among others.
López Terrada
María Luz
ML
Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia y Documentación, Universitat de València-C.S.I.C, Valencia. maria.lopez@uv.es
D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000266:history*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D013030:Spain; D014504:Urban Health / Q000266:history*