The eighteenth-century enlightenment in the University of San Carlos de Guatemala

Frontmatter Foreword (page v) Acknowledgments (page vii) Introduction: The Age of the Enlightenment (page xv) Part One. The Language Problem Introduction (page 3) I Chairs of Native Tongues versus Castilian (page 5) II "School Latin" versus Spanish (page 27) Part Two. Academic Reform Introduction (page 51) III Reform from Within: Aleas and Goicoechea (page 53) IV Reform from Above and from Without (page 78) V "Political Economy" and Law in the University (page 102) Part Three. Changing Intellectual Standards Introduction (page 115) VI Philosophy from Peripatetic to Modern (page 117) VII Scientific Education and Progress in the Eighteenth Century (page 161) Part Four. Academic Medicine Introduction (page 207) VIII The "Latin" Physician and the Chair of Medicine (page 209) IX The Protomedicato: The Government, the University, and Public Health (page 222) X The Progress of Medical Science (page 264) XI The Teaching of Surgery (page 290) Part Five. Ethics, Citizenship, Government, and Revolution Introduction (page 307) XII Ethics and Government (page 309) XIII "Contamination" and Independence (page 308) General Conclusion (page 342) Index (page 357)