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"As a comprehensive study of the medical profession in Costa Rica and a sound comparison with medical developments in Latin America, this work is remarkable, novel, and useful. Steven Palmerrs"s integrated analysis of class, gender, professional hierarchy, and hybrid medical combinations is superb. This work will be a splendid addition to an emerging literature on the social history of medicine in Latin America."-Marcos Cueto, author ofThe Return of Epidemics: Health and Society in Peru during the Twentieth CenturyPalmer, Steven Paul is the author of 'From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800-1940' with ISBN 9780822330479 and ISBN 0822330474.
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