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From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism Doctors Healers and Public Power in Costa Rica 18001940
Author: Steven Paul Palmer
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era—when none of the fifty thousand inhabitants had access to a titled physician, pharmacist, or midwife—to the 1940s, when the figure of the qualified medical doctor was part of everyday life for many of Costa Rica&#...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822330479
ISBN-10: 0822330474
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 329
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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