Steven Palmer

From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism

Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

""From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism" presents new material of substantial interest to both Latin American specialists and medical historians. Steven Palmer has marshaled a convincing story in a challenging way that both informs and raises issues for debate."--John K. Crellin, coauthor of "Professionalism and Ethics in Complementary and Alternative Medicine"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 167mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330127
• ISBN-10: 0822330121
• Artikelnr.: 21958552

Autorenporträt

Steven Palmer

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Healers before Doctors 17
2. First Doctors, Licensed Empirics, and the New Politics of Practice 37
3. The Formation of a Biomedical Vanguard 67
4. Conventional Practice: New Science, Old Art, and Persistent
Heterogeneity 91
5. Other Healers: Survival, Revival, and Public Endorsement 119
6. Midwives of the Republic 139
7. Hookworm Disease and the Popularization of Biomedical Practice 155
8. The Magician versus the Monopolists: The Popular Medical Eclecticism of
Professor Carbell 183
9. Medical Populism: Dr. Calderon Guardia and the Foundations of Social
Security 207
Conclusion 231
Notes 239
Bibliography 299
Index 319