Beyond imported magic: essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America

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Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. Foreword / by Marcos Cueto -- Preface -- 1. Introduction : Beyond imported magic / Eden Medina, Ivan da Costa Marques, and Christina Holmes -- Part I. Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society. 2. Who invented Brazil? / Henrique Cukierman 3. Innovation and inclusive development in the South : a critical perspective / Mariano Fressoli, Rafael Dias, and Hernán Thomas 4. Working with care : narratives of invisible women scientists practicing forensic genetics in Colombia / Tania Pérez-Bustos, María Fernanda Olarte Sierra, and Adriana Díaz del Castillo H. 5. Ontological politics and Latin American local knowledges / Ivan da Costa Marques 6. Technology in an expanded field : a review of history of technology scholarship on Latin America in selected English-language journals / Michael Lemon and Eden Medina -- Part II. Local and Global Networks of Innovation. 7. South Atlantic crossings : fingerprints, science, and the state in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Argentina / Julia Rodriguez 8. Tropical assemblage : the Soviet Large Panel in Cuba / Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso 9. Balancing design : OLPC engineers and ICT translations at the periphery / Anita Say Chan 10. Translating magic : the charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO laptop in Paraguay / Morgan G. Ames 11. Nanoscience and nanotechnology : how an emerging area on the scientific agenda of the core countries has been adopted and transformed in Latin America / Noela Invernizzi, Matthieu Hubert, and Dominique Vinck 12. Latin America as laboratory : the camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions / Amy Cox Hall -- Part Ill. Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics. 13. Bottling atomic energy : technology, politics, and the state in Peronist Argentina / Jonathan Hagood 14. Peaceful atoms in Mexico / Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz 15. Neoliberalism as political technology : expertise, energy, and democracy in Chile / Manuel Tironi and Javiera Barandiarán 16. Creole interferences : a conflict over biodiversity and ownership in the south of Brazil / Ana Delgado and Israel Rodríguez-Giralt 17. The juridical hospital : patient-citizen-consumers claiming the right to health in Brazilian courts / João Biehl.