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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.)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Anne-Emanuelle Birn*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 176 - 192
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Copyright © 2005 by the University of Texas Press

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