Searching for the secrets of nature : the life and works of Dr. Francisco Hernández / Simon Varey, Rafael Chabrán, Dora B. Weiner, editors.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000], ©2000.

xvi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

The world of Dr. Francisco Hernández / Dora B. Weiner -- Philip II: imperial obligations and scientific vision / Peter O'Malley Pierson -- The classical tradition in Renaissance Spain and new trends in philology, medicine, and materia medica / Rafael Chabrán -- Francisco Hernández, Renaissance man / Simon Varey -- Hernández in México: exile and censorship? / Carmen Benito-Vessels -- Regulation of medical practitioners in the age of Francisco Hernández / John Jay Tepaske -- Shelter and care for natives and colonists: hospitals in sixteenth-century New Spain / Guenter B. Risse -- Illness, epidemics, and displaced classes in sixteenth-century New Spain / Elsa Malvido -- Anthropology, reason, and the dictates of faith in the Antiquities of Francisco Hernández / David A. Boruchoff -- Entr'acte / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey -- The reception of American drugs in Europe, 1500-1650 / J. Worth Estes -- The contribution of Hernández to European botany and materia medica / José M. López Piñero and José Pardo Tomás -- Hernández in the Netherlands and England / Rafael Chabrán and Simon Varey -- Hernández and Spanish painting in the seventeenth century / María José López Terrada -- Globalizing the Natural history / Jaime Vilchis -- The circulation of the work of Hernández in nineteenth-century Spain / Leoncio López-Ocón -- Latino Catholic civilization: patterns of health and demography / David Hayes-Bautista -- The popular legacy of Francisco Hernández / Simon Varey and Rafael Chabrán.

Includes bibliographical references and index.