... government created a new state laboratory facility, displacing the Instituto from its position at the apex of scientific life in the new republic and leading to its demise. No comparable facility capable of undertaking original medical research took its place. The roles of timing and political process...

...David Sowell From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism: Doctors, Healers, and Public Power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940 . By Palmer Steven . Durham : Duke University Press , 2003 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Paper...

... racial and gendered formations had an important influence on the STI research in the country. US and Guatemalan doctors together created new racialized and gendered identifications for medical subjects as they bonded across borders. Although US research and development projects have been imposed...

...Gustave A. Nuermberger Alphabetical List of Medical and Public Health Journals of Latin America . Compiled by de la Garza Jeannette M. . [ Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Publication No. 185 .] ( Washington, D. C. : Pan American Sanitary Bureau, July , 1942 . Pp. [ 3 ] 60 . Paper...

...Daniel A. Rodriguez Abstract This essay explores the radicalization of the Cuban medical class in the context of the economic and political crises of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Organized under the Cuban Medical Federation, physicians targeted Havana's Spanish-run hospital system for its low...

...Raúl Necochea López Healthcare without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism . By Kirk John M. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2015 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xv, 356 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press...

...Laura Cházaro García Without question, the book also deals with topics central to earlier historiography, but from a perspective that obliges us to rethink medical professionalization in Mexico. Hernández Sáenz questions the historiographical argument that explains professionalization...

... countries. Traditional historians in Latin America tended to debate how thoroughly European medicine was adopted. The more critical historians argued that Latin Americans were slow to embrace European medical models and thus remained sunken in backwardness. 1 The more optimistic observers pointed...

...Donald F. Stevens This collection provides dramatic evidence that collaboration between medical doctors and professional historians is essential to the history of medicine. Peter J. Bianchine and Thomas A. Russo summarize what is known or supposed about the “virgin soil” epidemics...

...Donald B. Cooper An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine . By Price Robin . London : The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine , 1983 . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 319 . Cloth...

... in 1908), achieved true international recognition. The Institute and Dr. Cruz, its Director from 1900 to 1917, played major roles in such achievements as eradicating yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, substantially upgrading medical teaching and scientific research standards in Brazil, and the discovery...

... upon other key issues of the time, such as reform within Spanish medical education, the purpose and effectiveness of censorship, certain political aspects of the reigns of Carlos III and IV, and the institutional defenders of traditionalism within Spanish medicine, such as the Protomedicato...

...Joseph Zentner Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use . By Rubin Vera and Comitas Lambros . Foreword by Shafer Raymond Philip . The Hague , 1975 . Mouton . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography . Pp. xx , 205 . Cloth . $9.95...

...Michael E. Burke The Royal Protomedicato: The Regulation of the Medical Professions in the Spanish Empire . By Lanning John Tate . Edited by TePaske John Jay . Durham : Duke University Press , 1985 . Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 485 . Cloth. $37.50...

...Marcos Cueto From the Fat of Our Souls: Social Change, Political Process, and Medical Pluralism in Bolivia . By Crandon-Malamud Libbet . Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes...

...Silvia Marina Arrom Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767-1831 . By Sáenz Luz María Hernández . American University Studies Series XXI: Regional Studies , vol. 17 . New York : Peter Lang , 1997 . Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 301 pp...

..., social classes, gender, and age in a persuasive, thorough, and well-researched argument. Rodríguez also shows us how medical professionals, charity and beneficence organizations, politicians, and ordinary citizens pushed and influenced the shaping of a Cuban nation where health was to be a right...

...A. K. M. Brazilian Medical Contributions . By Ribeiro Leonidio . ( Rio de Janeiro : Livraria José Olympio , 1939 . Pp. 181 .) Copyright 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 ...