Community Participation in Health
Subtitle: The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780521025706
Subjects: Health systems & services; Latin America - Central America; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Costa Rica; Anthropology - General; Health Care Delivery; History-Latin America - Central America; Medical policy--Costa Rica; Medical policy--Costa Rica Medical policy--Co; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General
First sentence: Over the last century doctors and public health authorities have gradually asserted their control over the domain of health and medicine in most of the Western world.