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