Medicine, Trade and Empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context (Paperback)

Foreword; Introduction, Palmira Fontes da Costa; Garcia de Orta in the context of the Sephardic diaspora, Jon Arrizabalaga; Locating Garcia de Orta in the port city of Goa and the Indian Ocean world, Michael Pearson; Garcia de Orta’s Coloquios: context and afterlife of a dialogue, Ines G. ?upanov; A ‘pleasant banquet of words’: therapeutic virtues and alimentary consumption in Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India, Ines de Ornellas e Castro; Between science and philology: taxonomy of errors in Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies, Isabel Soler and Juan Pimentel; Cultures of inquiry, myths of empire: natural history in colonial Goa, Hugh Cagle; Trading in medical simples and developing the new science: de Orta and his contemporaries, Harold J. Cook; Garcia de Orta and Amato Lusitano’s views on Materia Medica: a comparative perspective, Antonio Manuel Lopes Andrade; Figuring exotic nature in 16^{th-century Europe: Garcia de Orta and Carolus Clusius, Florike Egmond; East Indies, West Indies: Garcia de Orta and the Spanish treatises on exotic Materia Medica, Jose Pardo Tomas; ‘Enduring echoes of Garcia de Orta’: The Royal Hospital Gardens in Goa and evolving hybridization in Portuguese colonial medical culture, Timothy D. Walker; Identity and the construction of memory in representations of Garcia de Orta, Palmira Fontes da Costa; Afterword, Andrew Cunningham; Index.}