The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: David Sowell
Categories: Indians of South America
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Marcos Cueto
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.
From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Steven Palmer
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-06 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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From Popular Medicine to Medical Populism presents the history of medical practice in Costa Rica from the late colonial era—when none of the fifty thousand in
Christianity in Latin America
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Justo L. González
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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From the arrival of the conquistadores in the fifteenth century to the spread of the Pentecostal movement today, Christianity has moulded, coerced, refashioned,
Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Juanita De Barros
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-16 - Publisher: Routledge

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Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine, but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet