Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Healers before Doctors 17
7. 2 First Doctors, Licensed Empirics, and the New Politics of Practice 37
8. 3 The Formation of a Biomedical Vanguard 67
9. 4 Conventional Practice: New Science, Old Art, and Persistent Heterogeneity 91
10. 5 Other Healers: Survival, Revival, and Public Endorsement 119
11. 6 Midwives of the Republic 139
12. 7 Hookworm Disease and the Popularization of Biomedical Practice 155
13. 8 The Magician versus the Monopolists: The Popular Medical Eclecticism of Professor Carbell 183
14. 9 Medical Populism: Dr. Calderón Guardia and the Foundations of Social Security 207
15. Conclusion 231
16. Notes 239
17. Bibliography 299
18. Index 319