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Healers, Healing, and Child Well-Being: Ideologies, Institutions, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

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FROM POPULAR MEDICINE TO MEDICAL POPULISM: DOCTORS, HEALERS, AND PUBLIC POWER IN COSTA RICA, 1800–1940. By PalmerSteven. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 329. $69.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.)

RACE, PLACE, AND MEDICINE: THE IDEA OF THE TROPICS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRAZILIAN MEDICINE. By PeardJulyan G. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. 315. N.p.)

THE TALE OF HEALER MIGUEL PERDOMO NEIRA: MEDICINE, IDEOLOGIES, AND POWER IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANDES. By SowellDavid. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001. Pp. 171. $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Anne-Emanuelle Birn*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Copyright © 2005 by the University of Texas Press

References

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2. Marcos Cueto, Excelencia científica en la periferia: Actividades científicas e investigación biomedical en el Perú, 1890–1950 (Lima: Tarea, 1989).

3. Richard Pérez-Peña, “Dominican-Made Powder Remedy is Poisonous, Health Officials Say.” New York Times, 6 November 2003.