...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...

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

... 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...

...Donald Cooper Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890-1920 . By Stepan Nancy . New York , 1976 . Neale Watson Academic Publications . Graph. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 225 . Cloth. $12.95 . Copyright 1977 by Duke...

...: 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 . ...

...Julyan G. Peard Gradually the imperial government came to dominate all aspects of medical school life. It controlled the finances, nominated the directors, and, although professors were selected by competitive examination, was known to overrule the outcome of a competition and appoint its own...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... to medical experimentation. Registered sex workers contended with police harassment and reported for semiweekly vaginal inspections at the venereal disease hospital in Guatemala City. Dr. Luis Galich ran the hospital until he became the head of the Ministry of Public Health; then Dr. Juan Funes took over...

...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...

... to take a doctor’s degree in the University of Montpellier, but failed to win a professorship in Lima until Unanue founded the new medical college. Puente and Dãvila, also mulattoes, belonged to the surgeon’s guild. Like Dr. Villalobos, the creoles Bueno and Vergara probably held posts in the hospitals...

...Donald F. Stevens Columbus and the New World: Medical Implications . Edited by Settipane Guy A. M.D. Providence : Oceanside Publications, Inc , 1995 . Maps. Photographs. Notes. Index, xxi, 125 pp. Paper . $49.50 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press 1997...