Medicine

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Bruce Hevly
Associate Professor
Laurie Marhoefer
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Lynn M. Thomas
Professor
Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor in History
Director, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities
Adam Warren
Department Chair
Professor
Williams Family Endowed Professor in History

Latest News

Nancy Bristow Lecture on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 (June 3, 2020)
“We Can’t Not Talk about It”: History Instructors Teach the Virus (May 18, 2020)
Adam Warren Receives ACLS Grant (February 16, 2017)
New Course on the History of Global Health (February 7, 2014)

Related Research

Adam Warren. “Dorotea Salguero and the Gendered Persecution of Unlicensed Healers in Early Republican Peru.” In The Gray Zones of Medicine, eds. Pablo Gómez and Diego Armus. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
Eric Johnson, "When endemic met epidemic: cholera, chronic disease and public health in Kazan, 1788–1842," Urban History (2020).
Few, Martha, Zeb Tortorici, and Adam Warren, Baptism through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire. State College: Penn State University Press, 2020.
“Between the Foreign and the Local: French Midwifery, Traditional Practitioners, and Vernacular Medical Knowledge about Childbirth in Lima, Peru.” História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos 22, no. 1 (2015), pp. 179-200.
“From Natural History to Popular Remedy: Animals and their Medicinal Applications among the Kallawaya in Colonial Peru.” In Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History, eds. Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici. Duke University Press, 2013.
“Medicine and the Dead in Lima: Conflicts over Burial Reform and the Meaning of Catholic Piety, 1808-1850.” In Death and Dying in Colonial Latin America, eds. Martina Will de Chaparro andMiruna Achim, University of Arizona Press, 2011.
Warren, Adam. Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
“La Medicina y los muertos en Lima: Conflictos sobre la reforma de los entierros y el significado de la piedad católica, 1808-1850.” In El rastro de la salud en el Perú, eds. Marcos Cueto, Jorge Lossio, and Carol Pasco. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, 2009, pp. 45-89.
“An Operation for Evangelization: Friar Francisco González Laguna, the Cesarean Section, and Fetal Baptism in Late Colonial Peru.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 83, no. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 647-675.
“Recetarios: sus autores y lectores en el Perú colonial.” Histórica 33, no. 1 (2009), pp. 11-41.

Medicine

Bruce Hevly

Laurie Marhoefer

Lynn M. Thomas

Adam Warren