Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms

Acknowledgments

ix In writing this book I have been keenly aware of my reliance on the intellectual guidance, friendship, and generosity of others. I am particularly grateful to Christine Hünefeldt and Eric Van Young, who pushed me to become more intellectually rigorous as a historian and provided endless encouragement on earlier versions of this project. Likewise, Dain Borges, Suzanne Brenner, Nancy Caciola, and Marta Hanson all offered incisive feedback that led me to rethink my original questions and the significance of my findings. The Department of History and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of California, San Diego, funded initial research for this project. Support from various sources at the University of Washington enabled me to travel abroad to do extensive additional research and released me from teaching for several quarters to devote myself to writing. A Junior Faculty Development Award financed research in Lima in summer 2005, while the UW History Department’s Keller Fund enabled me to visit the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, in September 2006. The UW’s Royalty Research Fund allowed me to return to Lima in 2008, and support from the UW History Department’s Hanauer Fund financed the fees for illustrations and the drawing of maps. The Royalty Research Fund and a faculty research fellowship from the UW’s Simpson Center for the Humanities released me from teaching for two academic quarters so that I could revise the manuscript. Beyond this institutional support, I have benefited tremendously from the vibrant intellectual community at the University of Washington. I am especially grateful to my junior faculty writing group, including Elena Campbell, Purnima Dhavan, Shaun López, Noam Pianko, Florian Schwarz,  acKnoWledGMents warren text i-290.4.indd 9 7/23/10 10:42 AM x acknowledgments David Spafford, and Charity Urbanski. The Simpson Center’s Society of Scholars Reading Group pushed me to think in more critical ways about interdisciplinarity, and fellow participants offered helpful feedback on chapter 3. I also invited feedback from the History Department’s History Research Group, and I benefited immeasurably from the advice and help of Dauril Alden, Jordanna Bailkin, Charles Bergquist, Stephanie Camp, Kent Guy, Sandra Joshel, Linda Nash, Vicente Rafael, Ileana Rodríguez-Silva, Ben Schmidt, Sarah Stein, Lynn Thomas, Simon Werrett, and Glennys Young. I have also benefited from the valuable support of faculty in the Latin American Studies Program. Intellectual communities beyond the University of Washington also strengthened this work. Two roundtable discussions of my work, led by Claudia Agostoni and Ana María Carrillo at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, challenged me to think about cultural historical approaches to the history of medicine in new ways. Participation in a colloquium at the Colegio Médico del Perú on the Peruvian doctor Hipólito Unanue taught me to appreciate the role of biography in medical histories. I am grateful to Oswaldo Salaverry for inviting me to that event. A colloquium on artisan surgeons at the Wellcome Trust prompted me to pay more attention to Lima’s diverse surgeons, barbers, and “cutters,” as well as the problematic categories used to describe them. Beyond these presentations , I have benefited from the friendship, collaboration, and advice of Carlos Aguirre, Warwick Anderson, Ann Blum, Charles Briggs, Mark Carey, Toño Coello, Marcos Cueto, Martha Few, Margaret Garber, Rosalva Loreto López, Jorge Lossio, Cathy McClive, Heather McCrea, Zoila Mendoza , Rachel O’Toole, Alexandra Puerto, Guenter Risse, E. Elena Songster, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Zeb Tortorici, Charles Walker, Eddie Wright-Ríos, and Caroline Yezer. This book would not have been possible, of course, without the assistance of many archivists, librarians, and staff in Peru, Spain, Britain, and the United States. I am especially grateful to Peru’s archivists, whose efforts to preserve materials under difficult conditions are truly heroic. Laura Gutiérrez Arbulú and Melecio Tineo Morón’s encyclopedic knowledge of the Archivo Arzobispal de Lima (and other archives) proved invaluable. Without the help of the interlibrary loan staff at the UW and the assistance of librarians Linda DiBiase and Theresa Mudrock, completing research for many of this book’s chapters would have been impossible. The staff at the UW’s History Department also provided helpful knowledge, friendship, and encouragement. warren text i-290.4.indd 10 7/23/10 10:42 AM acknowledgments xi Working with the editors and staff at University of Pittsburgh Press has been a...