| Description |
1 online resource (339 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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, and culture in Latin American history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Science -- Latin America -- History
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Science -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
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Science -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- History
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Science and the humanities -- Latin America -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Science
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Science and the humanities
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Science -- Political aspects
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Science -- Social aspects
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blanco, María del Pilar, editor.
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Page, Joanna, 1974- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019034408 |
| ISBN |
9781683401766 |
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168340176X |
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