| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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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, 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 |
| Summary |
A study of the development of the medical profession and the health system in Costa Rica, integrating an analysis of class, gender, professional hierarchy, and a comparative perspective on the health care systems of other nations |
| Analysis |
Medicina Costa Rica Historia |
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Medicina primitiva Costa Rica Historia |
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Medicina social Costa Rica Historia |
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Historia de la medicina Siglo XIX Costa Rica |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Costa Rica -- History
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Traditional medicine -- Costa Rica -- History
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Social medicine -- Costa Rica -- History
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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Faith Healing -- history
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Health Services -- history
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Physicians -- history
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MEDICAL -- History.
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Medicine
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Social medicine
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Traditional medicine
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Volksmedizin
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| SUBJECT |
Costa Rica |
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Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822384694 |
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0822384698 |
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