History of microbiology in Latin America from the perspective of social studies of science and technology

 

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Autores: Zabala, Juan Pablo, Rojas, Nicolás Facundo
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2019
Descripción:This article emerged in the framework of the joint work of the Global History Network of Microbiology in Latin America, composed of professionals from microbiology, history, and sociologists of science interested in building a historical reflection on microbiology. In our task, we face the conceptual challenge of how to delimit that object in empirical and theoretical terms. Because of this concern, we propose a reflection on some of the conceptual and methodological axes that, from the Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST), allow us to build a historical perspective of the development of microbiology in the Latin American context. These have outlined different issues such as organizational aspects, interactions between actors or social networks formed around microbiological practice. Secondly, the great diversity of practices, knowledge, institutions, interests (economic, social, professional), and political processes –both local and international– that influenced the reception of microbiology in Latin America. In the last sections, we discuss two perspectives for the construction of microbiology as a research object: on one hand, the study of institutions, and, on the other hand, the analysis of the emergence of diseases and the political processes associated with them. .
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/39376
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/39376
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Microbiology
Sociology
History
Latin America
Social Studies of Science and Technology
Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología.
Microbiología
Sociología
Historia
América Latina