From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism : Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 /

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A study of the development of the medical profession and the health system in Costa Rica, integrating an analysis of class, gender, professional hierarchy, and a comparative perspective on the health care systems of other nations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Palmer, Steven Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Volksmedizin
Traditional medicine.
Social medicine.
Medicine.
MEDICAL > History.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Costa Rica > Histoire.
Physicians > history
Health Services > history
Faith Healing > history
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Social medicine > Costa Rica > History.
Traditional medicine > Costa Rica > History.
Medicine > Costa Rica > History.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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