Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 329 p.)
ISBN:
9780822384694
,
0822384698
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822330121
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Palmer, Steven From popular medicine to medical populism Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press, 2003 ISBN 0822330474
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822330121
Language:
English
Subjects:
Medicine
Keywords:
Costa Rica
;
Volksmedizin
;
Geschichte 1800-1940
;
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1215/9780822384694
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822384694?locatt=mode:legacy
