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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,...

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Otros Autores: Page, Joanna, 1974- (Editor ), Blanco, María del Pilar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 Perez 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 Jose 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. 
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