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Geopolitics, culture, and the scientific imaginary in Latin America /
"Challenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship between science, politics,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University of Florida Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. Latin America's Scientific Landscapes. Introduction
- Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination / Gabriela Nouzeilles
- Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada (1868-1876) / María del Pilar Blanco
- Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s / Jens Andermann
- Section II. Latin America as the Site of Knowledge Production. Introduction
- Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico / Yarí Pérez Marín
- Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1596-1797 / Heidi V. Scott
- Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizan's Medical Project / Edward Chauca
- Section III. Science and the Modern Nation. Introduction
- Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race / Lina del Castillo
- "Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata / Miguel de Asua
- Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s / Hernán Comastri
- Section IV. Utopian Convergences between Science and the Arts. Introduction
- Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines / Soledad Quereilhac
- Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson / Julio Prieto
- The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live By / Joanna Page
- Section V. Science, Epistemology, and the Critique of Modernity. Introduction
- Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors / Carlos Fonseca Suárez
- The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui / Brais Outes-Leon
- Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Non-linear Universe / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra.