From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940 by Steven Palmer

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

Steven Palmer

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nonfiction health history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 t...

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