LEADER 04529nam 22006254a 450 001 9910807878503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79571-8 024 7 $a10.7560/712713 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467055 035 $a(EBL)3443176 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000242161 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000242161 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10301474 035 $a(PQKB)10041800 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443176 035 $a(OCoLC)82139224 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19348 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443176 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245642 035 $a(OCoLC)646760615 035 $a(DE-B1597)588362 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795716 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467055 100 $a20051205d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience in Latin America $ea history /$fedited by Juan Jose Saldana, ; translated by Bernabe Madrigal 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $a"Originally published as Historia social de las ciencias en America Latina"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-292-71271-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION: The Latin American Scientific Theater (Juan Jose? Saldan?a)""; ""CHAPTER 1: Natural History and Herbal Medicine in Sixteenth-century America (Xavier Lozoya)""; ""CHAPTER 2: Science and Public Happiness during the Latin American Enlightenment (Juan Jose? Saldan?a)""; ""CHAPTER 3: Modern Scientific Thought in Santa Fe, Quito, and Caracas, 1736-1803 (Luis Carlos Arboleda and Diana Soto Arango)""; ""CHAPTER 4: Scientific Traditions and Enlightenment Expeditions in Eighteenth-century Hispanic America (Antonio Lafuente and Leoncio Lo?pez-Oco?n)"" 327 $a""CHAPTER 5: Science and Freedom: Science and Technology as a Policy of the New American States (Juan Jose? Saldan?a)""""CHAPTER 6: Scientific Medicine and Public Health in Nineteenth-century Latin America (Emilio Quevedo and Francisco Gutie?rrez)""; ""CHAPTER 7: Academic Science in Twentieth-century Latin America (Hebe M. C. Vessuri)""; ""CHAPTER 8: Excellence in Twentieth-century Biomedical Science (Marcos Cueto)""; ""CHAPTER 9: International Politics and the Development of the Exact Sciences in Latin America (Regis Cabral)"" 330 $aScience in Latin America has roots that reach back to the information gathering and recording practices of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. Spanish and Portuguese conquerors and colonists introduced European scientific practices to the continent, where they hybridized with local traditions to form the beginnings of a truly Latin American science. As countries achieved their independence in the nineteenth century, they turned to science as a vehicle for modernizing education and forwarding "progress." In the twentieth century, science and technology became as omnipresent in Latin America as in the United States and Europe. Yet despite a history that stretches across five centuries, science in Latin America has traditionally been viewed as derivative of and peripheral to Euro-American science. 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. 606 $aScience$zLatin America$xHistory 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zLatin America 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects 676 $a509.8 701 $aSaldana$b Juan Jose$01687066 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807878503321 996 $aScience in Latin America$94060264 997 $aUNINA