...Raúl Necochea López I respect Kirk's ethic of acompañamiento , his bearing sympathetic witness to a worthy cause, which extends to his donating of the book's proceeds to MEDICC, an organization that promotes US-Cuban health sector cooperation. However, portraying Cuba's medical internationalism...

... 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...

...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 ...

...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...

...David Sowell From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism is a well-written book that will assume a leading place in the scholarship on medicine in Latin America. Scholars interested in public policy, the growth of the state, and populism will benefit from it as well. The case of Carlos...

...Laura Cházaro García Carving a Niche: The Medical Profession in Mexico, 1800–1870 . By Luz María Hernández Sáenz . McGill-Queen's / Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2018 . Figures...

... medical school on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to prove the candidate’s competence. He ordered a new competition to select another candidate. See CMB 18 (1887), 529-32. 18 Joseph-F.-X. Sigaud, Du climat et des maladies du Brésil: ou statistique médicale de cet empire (Paris...

...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...

...Alfred W. Crosby Epidemic Disease in Mexico City, 1761-1813. An Administrative, Social, and Medical Study . By Cooper Donald B. . Austin , 1965 . University of Texas Press for the Institute of Latin American Studies . Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 236 . Copyright 1967 by Duke...

... (1710-1790), the outstanding British clinician, taught at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. On both men, see Lester S. King, The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1958). Unanue read Cullen closely and often quoted him. I do not know whether Cullen ever mentioned coca...

...Mariola Espinosa The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana . By Daniel A. Rodríguez Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2020 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv, 268 pp. Paper, $34.95...

...Donald B. Cooper The Royal College of San Carlos: Surgery and Spanish Medical Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century . By Burke Michael E. . Foreword by Lanning John Tate . Durham , 1977 . Duke University Press . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 215 . Cloth. $10.75...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...