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100 1 _aMedina, Eden.
245 1 0 _aBeyond Imported Magic :
_bEssays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bMIT Press,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (411 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aInside Technology Series
505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic -- Part I: Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society -- 2 Who Invented Brazil? -- 3 Innovation and Inclusive Development in the South: A Critical Perspective -- 4 Working with Care: Narratives of Invisible Women Scientists Practicing Forensic Genetics in Colombia -- 5 Ontological Politics and Latin American Local Knowledges -- 6 Technology in an Expanded Field: A Review of History of Technology Scholarship on Latin America in Selected English-Language Journals -- Part II: Local and Global Networks of Innovation -- 7 South Atlantic Crossings: Fingerprints, Science, and the State in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Argentina -- 8 Tropical Assemblage: The Soviet Large Panel in Cuba -- 9 Balancing Design: OLPC Engineers and ICT Translations at the Periphery -- 10 Translating Magic: The Charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO Laptop in Paraguay -- 11 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America -- 12 Latin America as Laboratory: The Camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions -- Part III: Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics -- 13 Bottling Atomic Energy: Technology, Politics, and the State in Peronist Argentina -- 14 Peaceful Atoms in Mexico -- 15 Neoliberalism as Political Technology: Expertise, Energy, and Democracy in Chile -- 16 Creole Interferences: A Conflict over Biodiversity and Ownership in the South of Brazil -- 17 The Juridical Hospital: Patient-Citizen-Consumers Claiming the Right to Health in Brazilian Courts -- Contributors -- Index.
520 _aStudies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aTechnology transfer -- Latin America.
650 0 _aScience -- Latin America.
650 0 _aTechnology -- Social aspects -- Latin America.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aMarques, Ivan da Costa.
700 1 _aHolmes, Christina.
700 1 _aCueto, Marcos.
700 1 _aCukierman, Henrique.
700 1 _aFressoli, Mariano.
700 1 _aDias, Rafael.
700 1 _aThomas, Hernán.
700 1 _aBustos, Tania Pérez.
700 1 _aSierra, María Fernanda Olarte.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMedina, Eden
_tBeyond Imported Magic
_dCambridge : MIT Press,c2014
_z9780262526203
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aInside Technology Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3339847
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