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The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlike previous scholarship, which has focused primarily on upper-class and noble women, this book examines the lives of those on the periphery, including free and enslaved Africans, colonized indigenous mothers, and poor Spanish wome

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States, yet remarkably little is known regarding risk factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), relatively few federal grants and scientific publications focus on STBs, and few evidence‐based approaches to prevent or treat STBs are available. This "decade in review" article discusses five domains of recent empirical findings that span biological, environmental, and contextual systems and can guide future research in this high priority area: (1) the role of the central nervous system; (2) physiological risk factors, including the peripheral nervous system; (3) proximal acute stress responses; (4) novel behavioral and psychological risk factors; and (5) broader societal factors impacting diverse populations and several additional nascent areas worthy of further investigation.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Gendered Health and Healing -- Part One: Treatment Models -- Chapter One Healing across Ideological Boundaries in Late Seventeenth-Century Madrid -- Chapter Two Killer Skin Care: Gender and Venereal -- Chapter Three Convent Medicine, Healing, and Hierarchy in Arequipa, Peru -- Chapter Four Leche and lagartijas: Injecting the Local into Eighteenth-Century Spanish American Medical Discourse1 -- Part Two: Representing Health -- Chapter Five Breastfeeding in Public? Representations of Breastfeeding in Early Modern Spain -- Chapter Six The Queer (Evil) Eye and Deviant Healing on the Early Modern Stage -- Chapter Seven Staging Women's Healing: Theory and Practice -- Part Three: Faith and Illness -- Chapter Eight Work and Health in the Jesuit Province of Aragon (1617-1667) -- Chapter Nine Chronicles of Pain: Carmelite Women and Galenism -- Chapter Ten Sacred Embryology: Intrauterine Baptisms and the Negotiation of Theology and Health Sciences across the Eighteenth- Century Spanish Empire -- Contributors -- Index