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

by David Sowell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842028277
• ISBN13: 9780842028271
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"