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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Palmer, Steven Paul
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
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.