El mundo atlántico español durante el siglo XVIII

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La historia de la medicina muestra cómo las sociedades han cambiado su enfoque de la enfermedad desde la antigüedad hasta el presente. Las primeras tradiciones médicas incluyen las de Babilonia, China, Egipto e India. Los indios introdujeron los conceptos de diagnóstico médico, pronóstico y ética médica avanzada. El juramento hipocrático se escribió en la antigua Grecia en el siglo Va.C. y es una inspiración directa para los juramentos del cargo que losmédicos hacen hoy al ingresar a la profesión. En la Edad Media, las prácticas quirúrgicas heredadas de los antiguos maestros...

Exposici n de los antecedentes coloniales, el pensamiento propiamente indigenista (con un cap tulo dedicado a las letras y las artes indigenistas) y las pol ticas puestas en pr ctica, terminando su estudio con un cap tulo titulado "Del indigenismo al indianismo", puesto que el indigenismo no se caracteriz por ser una manifestaci n del pensamiento ind gena sino una reflexi n criolla y mestiza sobre el indio.