Book ID: CBB000320224

From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 (2003)

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Palmer, Steven Paul (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xiv + 329 pp.; illus, bib., index
Language: English

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Review Romero, Aldemaro (2006) Review of "From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 369). unapi

Review Necochea, Raul (2004) Review of "From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940". Social History of Medicine (p. 323). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fallon, Richard
Katherine Boyce-Jacino
Gordon, Ronald J.
Sommer, Marianne
Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin
Lavine, Matthew
Concepts
Popularization
Popular culture
Authority of medicine
Physicians; doctors
Medicine
Science and culture
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
South Carolina (U.S.)
South Africa
Russia
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