From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism : Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 /
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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


