From popular medicine to medical populism : doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940
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From popular medicine to medical populism : doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940
Duke University Press, 2003
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index
Contents of Works
- 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