The Black Doctors of Colonial LimaIn this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin American, Jos Jouve Martn explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of independence in Peru, became dependent on a large number of bloodletters, surgeons, and doctors of African descent. The Black Doctors of Colonial Lima focuses on the lives and fortunes of three of the most distinguished among this group of black