Titlebook: Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine; Ana Barahona Living reference work 20200th edi

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A Historiography of the Life Sciences and Medicine in Latin America in Global Perspective,ying previous historical interconnections, and impacted almost all domains in the social sciences and humanities and the history of science is no exception. Recent studies in the history of science have tended to cast aside the nation as the favored unit of analysis, as well as Eurocentric narrative

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A Critical Analysis of the Reception of Darwinism in Latin America in the Nineteenth Century,primary reference, through the cases of Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin’s ideas in different geographical contexts. The comparative method has been extensively taken up to explain the influence of Charles Darwin’s ideas in the Latin American context, with emphasis on a diffusionist view. This per

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Darwinism,itivism and Spencerism. This process occurred in an atmosphere of expanding social, political, and economic liberalism in the region between 1850 and 1910. The assimilation of Darwinism as science was accompanied by cultural factors that were elements of this expansion in generalized liberalism, cen

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,How to Read Ameghino’s ,?, aspects that rule scientific developments is left in the background, and the discussions and reflections that these conceptual questions generate among the researchers involved in such developments are seldom analyzed. It would seem that this analysis lacks relevance; as if those discussions and re

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Palaeontology in South America,ter reveals the problems created by this perspective for understanding the questions at stake. An introduction to the main historiographical issues is followed by a perspective on the emergence of the nineteenth-century neologism “palaeontology” that discusses the locations where this term was first

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Historiography of Biogeography in Mexico,ury. The research on the history of biogeography is relatively recent, as is the autonomy that this discipline has achieved in the recent past. Since the mid-twentieth century, an unprecedented scientific revolution in comparative biology took place. Systematics and biogeography were properly consti

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Between History of Art and History of Science,ns as being of his overall interest. He is recognized as being the foremost landscape painter of the Valley of Mexico and was the first Mexican scientist to study the axolotl in its natural environment. Besides, his work shows a continuous development of his visual and scientific interests until the

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Writing the History of Animals in Latin America, in aquariums all over the world as pets and laboratory animals. This chapter uses the history of this paradoxical situation to introduce animal history as a historiographical perspective on to the history of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America. It offers an overview of different approac