CHAPTER 2 Science and Public Happiness during the Latin American Enlightenment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. INTRODUCTION The Latin American Scientific Theater 1
4. CHAPTER 1 Natural History and Herbal Medicine in Sixteenth-century America 29
5. CHAPTER 2 Science and Public Happiness during the Latin American Enlightenment 51
6. CHAPTER 3 Modern Scientifi c Thought in Santa Fe, Quito, and Caracas, 1736–1803 93
7. CHAPTER 4 Scientifi c Traditions and Enlightenment Expeditions in Eighteenth-century Hispanic America 123
8. CHAPTER 5 Science and Freedom: Science and Technology as a Policy of the New American States 151
9. CHAPTER 6 Scientifi c Medicine and Public Health in Nineteenth-century Latin America 163
10. CHAPTER 7 Academic Science in Twentieth-century Latin America 197
11. CHAPTER 8 Excellence in Twentieth-century Biomedical Science 231
12. CHAPTER 9 International Politics and the Development of the Exact Sciences in Latin America 241