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

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Palmer, Steven Paul
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Physical Description
xiv, 329 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

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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, and 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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ISBN
0822330121 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822330474 (pbk : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-318) and index.
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