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Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America / / edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes ; with a foreword by Marcos Cueto
| Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America / / edited by Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes ; with a foreword by Marcos Cueto |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina | 338.98/06 |
| Collana | Inside Technology Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Technology transfer - Latin America
Science - Latin America Technology - Social aspects - Latin America |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-262-02745-3
0-262-32550-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic; Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society; 2 Who Invented Brazil?; 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective; 4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia; 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges; 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals; Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation
7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba; 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery; 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay; 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America; 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina; 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico; 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile; 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil; 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465420403321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Health and Development / / ed. by Iris Borowy, Bernard Harris
| Health and Development / / ed. by Iris Borowy, Bernard Harris |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VI, 344 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.1091724 |
| Collana | Yearbook for the History of Global Development |
| Soggetto topico |
Public health - Developing countries
HISTORY / World |
| ISBN | 3-11-101558-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Health and development -- "Kindly see to the matter": Local communities and the development of rural public health, 1870-1920 -- Development, sanitation, and international public health in Mexico (1881- 1911) -- Medicine, health, and development in Indonesia -- Soviet medical assistance and the making of Mongolian healthcare: geopolitics, ideology, and transformation of a traditional nomadic society, 1923-1947 -- Gatekeepers for the Third Reich: public health officers, forced labor and the control of epidemics -- Rallying around the magic wand: Visions of social medicine, public health and disease control in India 1946-1957 -- Between God and rifle: Catholic Church, development and health in 1950s Brazil -- Triumph or tragedy: unintended consequences of political planning and social engineering in Maoist China -- Mechanization of night soil disposal in postwar Japan -- The World Bank's advocacy of user fees in global health, c.1970-1997: more ideology than evidence? -- The origins of social determinants of health and universal health coverage at the World Health Organization, 2005-2015 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996509962803316 |
| München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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