Science in Latin America : a history / edited by Juan José Saldaña, ; translated by Bernabé Madrigal.

Historia social de las ciencias en América Latina. English.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

vi, 256 pages ; 24 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references.

Natural history and herbal medicine in sixteenth-century America / Xavier Lozoya -- Science and public happiness during the Latin American enlightenment / Juan José Saldaña -- Modern scientific thought in Santa Fe, Quito, and Caracas, 1736-1803 / Luis Carlos Arboleda and Diana Soto Arango -- Scientific traditions and enlightenment expeditions in eighteenth-century Hispanic America / Antonio Lafuente and Leoncio López-Ocón -- Science and freedom : science and technology as a policy of the new American states / Juan José Saldaña -- Scientific medicine and public health in nineteenth-century Latin America / Emilio Quevedo and Francisco Gutiérrez -- Academic science in twentieth-century Latin America / Hebe M.C. Vessuri -- Excellence in twentieth-century biomedical science / Marcos Cueto -- International politics and the development of the exact sciences in Latin America / Regis Cabral.

Translated from the Spanish.