From popular medicine to medical populism : doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 / Steven Palmer.

  • Palmer, Steven Paul.
Date:
2003
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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Physical description

xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index.

Contents

Healers before doctors -- First doctors, licensed empirics, and the new politics of practice -- The formation of a biomedical vanguard -- Conventional practice : new science, old art, persistent heterogeneity -- Other healers : survival, revival, and public endorsement -- Midwives of the republic -- Hookworm disease and the popularization of biomedical practice -- The magician versus the monopolists : the popular medical eclecticism of Professor Carbell -- Medical populism : Dr. Calderón Guardia and the foundations of social security.

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    History of Medicine
    BW.787.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 0822330121
  • 0822330474