Science in Latin America : a history / edited by Juan Josâe Saldaäna, ; translated by Bernabâe Madrigal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saldaäna, Juan Josâe.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Historia social de las ciencias en Amâerica Latina. English.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Science--Latin America--History.

Science.

Science--Social aspects--Latin America.

Science--Social aspects.

History.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

vi, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

To correct that mistaken view, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of science in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present. Eleven leading Latin American historians assess the part that science played in Latin American society during the colonial, independence, national, and modern eras, investigating science's role in such areas as natural history, medicine and public health, the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politics and nation-building, educational reform, and contemporary academic research. The comparative approach of the essays creates a continent-spanning picture of Latin American science that clearly establishes its autonomous history and its right to be studied within a Latin American context.

Notes:

"Originally published as Historia social de las ciencias en Amâerica Latina"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0292712715

9780292712713

OCLC:

62525140

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