Techniques of repair, the circulation of knowledge, and environmental transformation: Towards a new history of transportation.

It is the aim of this article to put questions of maintenance and repair in the history of science and technology under scrutiny, with a special focus on technologies and methods of transportation. The history of transportation is a history of trying to avoid shipwrecks and plane crashes. It is also a history of broken masts, worm-eaten hulls, the flat tires of cars, and endless delays at airports. This introductory article assesses the technological, scientific, and cultural implications of repairing and maintaining transportation networks. We argue that infrastructures for maintenance and repair played just as important a role in the history of transportation as the wharves and factories where ships, cars, trains, and airplanes were originally built. We also suggest that maintenance and repair are important sites of knowledge production, and a historical account of these practices provides a new, decentered narrative for the development of modern science and technology.

Redes de colaboración y objetos híbridos: mujeres citogenetistas en México, 1960s and 1970s / Collaborative networks and hybrid objects women cytogeneticists in Mexico, 1960-1980

Estudios recientes sobre la historia de la ciencia han enfatizado el enfoque transnacional que problematiza las narrativas eurocéntricas clásicas, las interpretaciones de difusión cultural y la oposición rígida de las categorías de «centro» y «periferia», para explicar la dinámica de los circuitos transnacionales y la circulación de conocimientos, personas, artefactos y prácticas científicas. El presente escrito intenta abonar en esta dirección al mostrar que el trabajo realizado por los genetistas mexicanos en los mil novecientos sesenta y setenta, en especial los trabajos de citogenética, no pueden caracterizarse como periféricos, pues al formar parte de redes de colaboración internacional, el conocimiento generado localmente en instituciones mexicanas y extranjeras logró circular y formar parte de la consolidación de la citogenética a escala global. En este artículo se abordarán las trayectorias de la bióloga y genetista mexicana María Cristina Cortinas, y en menor medida la de la médica y genetista mexicana de origen argentino Susana Kofman. Ellas compartieron agenda médica y de investigación además de tiempo y lugar, participaron en el diagnóstico temprano de enfermedades genéticas y revelaron la correlación entre las observaciones clínicas y el cariotipo. Este manuscrito se centrará, por un lado, en los cromosomas como objetos científicos híbridos que circularon entre la clínica y el laboratorio; por el otro, se abordarán los contextos locales, las culturas materialesy las prácticas específicas que permitieron a estas mujeres genetistas mexicanas ser parte de la producción y transmisión de conocimiento en los años mil novecientos sesenta y setenta, gracias a su pertenencia a redes científicas de colaboración nacionales e internacionales. (AU)

Recent studies on the history of science have emphasized the transnational approach that problematizes classic Eurocentric narratives, interpretations of cultural diffusion, and the rigid opposition of the categories of “center” and “periphery” to explain the dynamics of transnational circuits and the circulation of knowledge, people, artifacts, and scientific practices. This paper attempts to contribute to this direction by showing that the work carried out by Mexican geneticists in the 1960s and 1970s, especially the work on cytogenetics, cannot be characterized as peripheral because knowledge generated locally in Mexican and foreign institutions was able to circulate and become part of the consolidation of cytogenetics on a global scale, participating in international collaborative networks. This article addresses the trajectories of the Mexican biologist and geneticist María Cristina Cortinas, and to a lesser extent those of the Argentineborn Mexican physician and geneticist Susana Kofman. They shared a medical and research agenda and a time and place, participating in the early diagnosis of genetic diseases and revealing the correlation between clinical observations and the karyotype. This manuscript focuses on chromosomes as hybrid scientific objects that circulated between clinic and laboratory and on the local contexts, material cultures and specific practices that allowed these Mexican women geneticists to take part in the production and transmission of knowledge in the 1960s and 1970s, attributed to their participation in national and international scientific collaborative networks. (AU)

Discurso científico y modelos de circulación: entre el Manifiesto y la Libra de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) / Scientific discourse and circulation models: between the manifiesto and the libra by carlos de sigüenza y góngora (1645-1700)

El Manifiesto filosófico contra los cometas (1681) y la Libra astronómica filosófica (1690) de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (México, 1645-1700) han sido considerados por la crítica en su continuidad, como dos textos -uno más breve y otro más extenso- que representan una misma idea acerca de la naturaleza de los cometas: ellos no son ni causa ni señal de catástrofes. Pero en su tiempo, cada obra contó con una causa, un objetivo, una visibilidad y un público propios. Volver a poner en el centro de atención estas diferencias vinculadas a la materialidad de cada obra permitirá conocer mejor las condiciones de la circulación del discurso científico en el siglo XVII en el virreinato de Nueva España. Al exponer su conocimiento acerca de un fenómeno astronómico, como lo fue el cometa de 1680/1, Sigüenza advierte la necesidad de contar con un plan diversificado de comunicación de la ciencia: por un lado, interviene en la arena política estableciendo que el cometa no auguraba ni provocaría ninguna desgracia al nuevo gobierno; por otro, escribe un extenso y especializado tratado dirigido a matemáticos europeos para socializar sus mediciones y demostrar que es factible ser americano y docto a la vez.(AU)

The Manifiesto Filosófico contra los cometas (1681) and the Libra astronómica y filosófica (1690) of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (México, 1645-1700) have been considered by the critic in their continuity, as two texts -one shorter, one longer- that represent the same idea about the nature of the comets: they are neither cause nor sign of catastrophes. Nonetheless, in their time, each work had its own cause, objective, visibility and public. We aim to put back in the center of attention these differences linked to the materiality of each of the works, which will allow us to learn more about the conditions of the circulation of the scientific discourse in the 17th century in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. When asked to expose his knowledge about an astronomical phenomenon, like the 1680/1 comet, Sigüenza notices the need of counting with a diversified plan of communication of science: on the one side, he takes action in the political stage by establishing that the comet does not predict and would not cause any disgraces to the new government; on the other, he writes a long and specialized treaty directed to European mathematicians to socialize his measurements and demonstrate that it is possible to be American and learned at a time.(AU)

Conexões entre dois mundos. Prática médica, artes de curar e os saberes locais angolanos nos textos europeus ao longo do século XVIII / Connections between two worlds. Medical practice, healing arts and the local angolan knowledge in european texts throughout the 18th century

As conexões entre a África e o Brasil são tema recorrente na historiografia, principalmente, aquela relacionada com as questões sociais, econômicas, logísticas e políticas que envolviam o tráfico de escravos entre ambos os continentes. Um dos aspectos de maior interesse para os pesquisadores da história das ciências é, nesse sentido, a questão da saúde dos povos escravizados. Neste aspecto, a história da Medicina e dos conhecimentos médicos e farmacêuticos retratam um cenário no qual os contributos dos conhecimentos de origem africana tem vindo a ser verificados. Neste artigo, pretendo reconhecer as práticas médicas aplicadas em território angolano através de uma série de tratados médicos escritos por europeus que praticaram medicina em Angola, mais precisamente em Luanda, pretendendo responder às seguintes questões: Qual é o peso do conhecimento das populações locais na formação dos tratados médicos angolanos? Havia circulação de conhecimentos médicos entre Angola e Brasil?.(AU)

The connections between Africa and Brazil are a recurring theme in historiography, especially that related to social, economic, logistical and political issues involving the slave trade between the two continents. One of the most interesting aspects for researchers in the history of science is, in this sense, the question of the health of enslaved peoples. In this respect, the history of medicine and medical and pharmaceutical knowledge portray a scenario in which the contributions of knowledge of African origin have been verified. In this article, I intend to recognise the medical practices applied in Angolan territory through a series of medical treaties written by Europeans who practised medicine in Angola, more precisely in Luanda, in order to answer the following questions: What is the weight of the local population’s knowledge in the formation of Angolan medical treaties? Was there a circulation of medical knowledge between Angola and Brazil?.(AU)

Atomic Technologies and Nuclear Safety Practices in Spain During the 1960s.

The acquisition of a nuclear power reactor from the North American company Westinghouse in 1964 not only brought atomic practices and knowledge to Spain but also introduced new methods of industrial organization and management, as well as regulations created by organizations such as the US Atomic Energy Commission (US AEC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This article analyzes the history of the knowledge, regulations and experimental practices relating to radiation safety and protection that traveled with this reactor to an industrial space: the Zorita nuclear power plant. Within this space, the appropriation, use, and coproduction of knowledge and practices were conditioned by political, economic, industrial and social factors, and by the engineers, researchers and other professionals who contributed expert knowledge. Material held in the Tecnatom Historical Archive-the engineering company that coordinated construction of the plant-is the main source for this work, which delves into the history of knowledge and atomic technologies and adds to the historiography of radiological protection in Spain.

O cirurgião ilustrado Francisco Antônio de Sampaio e as plantas de "seu país" (vila de Cachoeira, BA - fins do século XVIII) / The distinguished surgeon Francisco Antônio de Sampaio and the plants of "his country" (vila de Cachoeira, Brazil, late eighteenth century)

Resumo Francisco Antônio de Sampaio atuou como cirurgião por mais de duas décadas em Cachoeira (BA). Nessa vila, produziu e enviou à Academia das Ciências de Lisboa escritos de história natural, embora não tivesse formação específica para esses estudos. Neste artigo analisamos sua produção científica e suas práticas de cura, em particular os usos e descrições das plantas locais e sua relação com diferentes agentes, a exemplo das pessoas do "vulgo local" e do naturalista e juiz de fora Amorim e Castro. Buscamos interpretar sua produção de conhecimento, tanto do ponto de vista da construção de autoridade científica quanto de sua interação com os agentes locais e metropolitanos.

Abstract Francisco Antônio de Sampaio worked as a surgeon for over two decades in Cachoeira, in the captaincy of Bahia, Brazil. In this village, he produced writings on natural history, which he sent to the Lisbon Academy of Science, although he had no specific training in this area. This article analyzes his scientific output and healing practices, especially the uses and descriptions of local plants and his relationships with different agents, such as the "local commoners" and the naturalist and magistrate Joaquim de Amorim e Castro. His production of knowledge is interpreted here both from the perspective of the construction of scientific authority and through his interactions with local and metropolitan agents.

The "Controversial Cundurango Cure": Medical professionalization and the global circulation of drugs.

This article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador - cundurango - that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian government as a new botanical cure for cancer in the late nineteenth century United States and elsewhere. The article focuses on the commercial and diplomatic interests behind the public discussion and advertising techniques of this drug. It argues that diverse elements - including the struggle for positioning scientific societies and the disapproval of the capacities of Ecuadorian doctors, US abolitionist history, regional and local political struggles - played a role in the quackery accusations against cundurango and its promoters. The development and international trade of this remedy offer interesting insights into the global history of drugs, particularly how medical knowledge was challenged during a period when scientific medicine was struggling for hegemony. It explores how newspapers expanded "the public interest" in a possible cancer cure.

A recepção da instrução programada como abordagem da análise do comportamento no Brasil nos anos 1960 e 1970 / The reception of programmed instruction as an approach to behavioral analysis in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s

Resumo O artigo apresenta a recepção e circulação da instrução programada na Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, como exemplo da apropriação da análise do comportamento no Brasil, e ilustra parte de tal apropriação nos anos 1960-1970, no contexto de reforma da educação superior e da influência sociointelectual estadunidense. Os resultados indicam que o recurso da instrução programada, para tornar-se autóctone, preconizou o protagonismo do aluno e sua autonomia do professor. As fontes indicam embates decorrentes de concepções preestabelecidas sobre o processo de ensino-aprendizagem e a influência estadunidense como elementos centrais para compreender a recepção e a circulação da instrução programada no Brasil.

Abstract The article discusses the reception and circulation of programmed instruction at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais as an example of the appropriation of behavioral analysis in Brazil and sheds light on part of this appropriation in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of Brazil's higher education reform and of US social and intellectual influence. Results indicate that the indigenization of programmed instruction involved its circulation as an educational resource that emphasized the student's role and his autonomy from the teacher. Sources point to clashes that derived from preconceptions about both the teaching-learning process and US influence, key elements to understand the reception and circulation of programmed instruction in Brazil.

Trópicos, ciência e leishmanioses: uma análise sobre circulação de saberes e assimetrias / The tropics, science, and leishmaniasis: an analysis of the circulation of knowledge and asymmetries

Resumo: O artigo investiga o processo de circulação de saberes ocorrido, nas primeiras décadas do século XX, entre os pesquisadores sul-americanos Edmundo Escomel (Peru) e Alfredo Da Matta (Brasil) e os europeus Alphonse Laveran (França) e Patrick Manson (Inglaterra) no que diz respeito à definição e validação da espundia como uma enfermidade particularizada da América do Sul, ao mesmo tempo que se postulava a necessidade do seu enquadramento no recém-criado grupo de moléstias denominado "leishmanioses". Compartilhando a recente preocupação em pensar a pesquisa histórica para além dos limites impostos pelo Estado nacional como categoria organizadora da narrativa, dialoga com alguns apologistas da história global/transnacional situando o caso específico nessa perspectiva analítica.

Abstract: The article investigates the process of circulation of knowledge which occurred during the first decades of the twentieth century between the South American researchers Edmundo Escomel (Peru) and Alfredo Da Matta (Brazil) and the Europeans Alphonse Laveran (France) and Patrick Manson (England) with regard to the definition and validation of espundia as a disease specific to South America, while simultaneously the need to insert this illness into the newly created group of diseases called the "leishmaniasis" was proposed. Sharing recent concerns in considering historical research beyond the limits imposed by the Nation-state as a category that organizes narratives, it dialogs with some apologists of global and transnational history, situating this specific case within this analytical perspective.

Disassembling archeology, reassembling the modern world.

This article provides a substantive discussion of the relevance of the history of archeology to the history of science. At the same time, the article introduces the papers contained in this special issue as exemplars of this relevance. To make its case, the article moves through various themes in the history of archeology that overlap with key issues in the history of science. The article discusses the role and tension of regimes of science in antiquarian and archeological practices, and also considers issues of scale and place, particularly in relation to the field. Additionally, the piece attends to issues of professionalization and the constitution of an archeological public, at the same time as discussing issues of empire, colonialism, and the circulation of knowledge. Meanwhile, enriching discussions within and beyond the history of science, the article discusses the history of archeology and its relationship with museums, collecting, and material culture and materiality. Finally, the piece discusses the relationship of the history of archeology with wider discussions about scientific ethics. In conclusion, the article questions whether we should speak of 'the history of archeology' at all.

Medición de inteligencia. Entre debates históricos y actuales / Intelligence measurement. Between historical and current debates

El objetivo de la presente investigación es resaltar el valor de la historia en las producciones científicas sobre la medición de la inteligencia. Además, se señalará qué puede aportar ese estudio histórico en países como la Argentina y por qué es necesario emprenderlos. Para ello se realiza un análisis de las publicaciones recientes y clásicas sobre los estudios de inteligencia y sobre la circulación del conocimiento. La relevancia del estudio sobre los contextos de producción y recepción ha puesto sobre la mesa los debates sobre las consecuencias sociales de las mediciones de nivel intelectual, pero quedan aún zonas sobre las que es preciso detenerse con cautela. Por último, se pone en evidencia la escasez de estos estudios en el ámbito local y se argumenta que su importancia estriba en la posibilidad de cuestionar ciertos procesos universales que ya se han estudiado en países de Europa, algunas partes de Latinoamérica y en los Estados Unidos.

The aim of this paper is to highlight the value of historical research in the scientific productions of intelligence measurement. In addition, it will be noted what the historical studies in countries such as Argentina can contribute to the general debate and why it is necessary to undertake it. This is done by the analysis of recent and classic literature on studies of intelligence and the circulation of knowledge. The relevance of the study about the contexts of production and reception bring discussions on the social consequences of measurements of intellectual level, to the table, but there are still areas which we must address with caution. Finally, the paper highlights the lack of local research and argues that its importance lies in the possibility of questioning certain universal processes that have already been studied in countries within Europe, some parts of Latin America and the United States.

The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650-1720).

The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established in pharmaceutical practice. This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in science, commerce, and society. Modern research has mostly focused on the first of these, largely due to the abundance of medico-historical data. While appreciating these findings, this article proposes to integrate the medical trajectory in a richer narrative, by drawing particular attention to the acculturation of the bark in commerce and society. Although the evidence we have for these two trajectories is still sketchy and disproportionate, it can nevertheless help us to make sense of sources that have not yet been an obvious focus of research. Starting from an apparently isolated occurrence of the drug in a letter, this article focuses on Paris as the location where medical and public appreciation of the bark took shape, by exploring several contexts of knowledge circulation and medical practice there. These contexts provide a new window on the early circulation of knowledge of the bark, at a time when its eventual acceptance was by no means certain.

Transnational dialogues between specialist and institutional knowledge in occupational accident legislation, first half of the twentieth century / Diálogos transnacionales entre los saberes técnicos e institucionales en la legislación sobre accidentes de trabajo, primera mitad del siglo XX

In the early twentieth century, Argentina began legislating occupational safety. Law no.9.688 legislated accidents in the workplace (1915) and granted legal jurisdiction to work-related problems. The approval of this legislation was in dialogue with proposals being produced in other regions. The links established between local figures and colleagues elsewhere are useful for examining the circulation, reception and legitimation of knowledge on a regional scale. The objective of this article is to examine the transnational references in local discussions about occupational accidents in Peru and Chile during the first half of the twentieth century.

A partir del siglo XX, se inició en la Argentina la legislación protectora del trabajo. La ley n.9.688 legisló sobre accidentes de trabajo (1915) y otorgó jurisdicción legal a los problemas relativos al trabajo. La sanción de este corpus estuvo en diálogo con las propuestas que se producían en otras latitudes. Los vínculos que se establecieron entre los referentes locales y sus colegas son de utilidad para abordar el estudio de circulación, recepción y legitimación de los saberes dentro de una escala regional. Así pues, el objetivo de este trabajo es revisar las referencias transnacionales en las discusiones locales sobre los accidentes laborales en Perú y Chile durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.

'Medical Knowledge' and 'Tradition' of Colonial Korea: Focused on Kudo's "Gynecology"-based Knowledge / 의사학

This article attempts to illuminate the ways in which Kudo's medical knowledge based on 'gynecological science' constructed the cultural 'traditions' of colonial Korea. Kudo appears to have been quite an influential figure in colonial Korea in that his writings on the relationship between women's crime, gynecological science and the Choson society granted a significant amount of intellectual authority. Here, I examine Kudo's position within colonial Korea as a producer and propagator of medical knowledge, and then see how women's bodies were understood according to his gynecological knowledge. It also traces the ways in which Kudo's gynecological knowledge represents Choson society and in turn invents the 'traditions' of Chosn. Kudo's knowledge of "gynecology" which had been formed while it traveled the states such as Japan, Germany and France served as an important reference for his representation of colonial Korean society. Kudo was a proponent of biological evolution, particularly the rules of 'atavism' put forth by the criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso, and argued that an unique social environment caused 'alteration of sexual urges' and primitive cruelty in Choson women. According to Kudo, The social environment was none other than the practice of 'early marriage,' which went against the physiology of women. To Kudo, 'early marriage' was an old 'tradition' of Choson and the cause of heinous crimes, as well as an unmistakable indicator of both the primitiveness and savageness of Chosn. While Lombroso considered personal factors such as stress as the cause of women's crimes, Kudo saw Choson women's crimes as a national characteristic. Moreover, he compared the occurrence rate of husband murders by provinces, based on which he categorized the northern population of Choson as barbaric Manchurian and the southern population as the superior Japanese, a combination of racism and scientific knowledge. Kudo's writings provide an insight into the appropriation of Western medical theories and criminal anthropological knowledge by a non-Western colony as well as the ambivalence and contradictions underlying Japanese empire as in the use of concepts like 'difference' and 'unity.' According to today's standards, Kudo's physiological arguments can hardly avoid being called pseudo science, which confirms that the power and authority of science standing on 'objectivity' and 'universality' are actually dependent on social contexts that are constantly being readjusted. In the end, the cultural 'traditions' of a nation/state often taken for granted are social constructions born out of transnational crossing points of knowledges, and on the basis of these constructs are the concepts of differences between nations/states. And one of the core references for these differences in colonial Korea was Western science/medical knowledge.