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Section I. Latin America's Scientific Landscapes. Introduction
Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination / Gabriela Nouzeilles
Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada (1868-1876) / María del Pilar Blanco
Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s / Jens Andermann
Section II. Latin America as the Site of Knowledge Production. Introduction
Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico / Yarí Pérez Marín
Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1596-1797 / Heidi V. Scott
Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizan's Medical Project / Edward Chauca
Section III. Science and the Modern Nation. Introduction
Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race / Lina del Castillo
"Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata / Miguel de Asua
Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s / Hernán Comastri
Section IV. Utopian Convergences between Science and the Arts. Introduction
Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines / Soledad Quereilhac
Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson / Julio Prieto
The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live By / Joanna Page
Section V. Science, Epistemology, and the Critique of Modernity. Introduction
Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors / Carlos Fonseca Suárez
The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui / Brais Outes-Leon
Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Non-linear Universe / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra.
Bone Tales: Patagonian Monsters and the Paleontological Imagination / Gabriela Nouzeilles
Nation as Laboratory: Rethinking Science Writing in Mexico's República Restaurada (1868-1876) / María del Pilar Blanco
Natural Histories of the Anthropocene: Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in the 1930s / Jens Andermann
Section II. Latin America as the Site of Knowledge Production. Introduction
Empathy, Patients' Needs and Therapeutic Innovation in the Medical Literature of Early Viceregal Mexico / Yarí Pérez Marín
Between Potosí and Nuevo Potosí: Mineral Riches and Observations of Nature in the Colonial Andes, ca. 1596-1797 / Heidi V. Scott
Indigenous Medicine and Nation-Building: Hermilio Valdizan's Medical Project / Edward Chauca
Section III. Science and the Modern Nation. Introduction
Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Land Surveys, Comparative Political Sociology, and the Malleability of Race / Lina del Castillo
"Una nueva y gloriosa nación": Patriotic Lyrics and Scientific Culture in the Forging of Political Emancipation in Río de la Plata / Miguel de Asua
Inventions and Discoveries in Letters to Perón: Dialogue and Autonomy in the Popular Technical Imagination in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s / Hernán Comastri
Section IV. Utopian Convergences between Science and the Arts. Introduction
Modernismo, Spiritualism, and Science in Argentina at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Analysis of National Magazines / Soledad Quereilhac
Doing Poetry with Science: Unthinking Knowledge in Sarduy, Perlongher, and Eielson / Julio Prieto
The Science of Reading Fiction: New (Post-Darwinian) Metaphors to Live By / Joanna Page
Section V. Science, Epistemology, and the Critique of Modernity. Introduction
Laboratories of Universality: A Genealogy of Solitary Latin American Inventors / Carlos Fonseca Suárez
The Politics of Relativity: Radical Epistemologies and the Revolutionary Potential of the Scientific Imaginary in José Carlos Mariátegui / Brais Outes-Leon
Beyond Empiricism: Rolando García's Theory of Complex Systems and the Epistemological Consequences of a Non-linear Universe / Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra.