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From popular medicine to medical populism : doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Palmer, Steven Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Medicine > Costa Rica > History.
Traditional medicine > Costa Rica > History.
Social medicine > Costa Rica > History.
History, 19th Century > Costa Rica.
History, 20th Century > Costa Rica.
Faith Healing > history > Costa Rica.
Health Services > history > Costa Rica.
Physicians > history > Costa Rica.
Description
Physical Description:xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-318) and index.
ISBN:0822330121 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822330474 (pbk : alk. paper)