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

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 --...

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1. Verfasser: Palmer, Steven Paul (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2003
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 329 Seiten) ill
ISBN:9780822384694
0822384698

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