Resumen de Science and Scientists in Latin America: An Historical Overview. A Review of (ed.) Juan José Saldaña's Science in Latin America: A History, (trans.) Bernabé Madrigal (Austin: U of Texas P, 2006)

Mark Carey

• Juan José Saldaña's edited book, Science in Latin America, thus remains an important work a decade after it was first published in Spanish as Historia social de las ciencias en América Latina (Mexico City: UNAM and M.A. Porrúa, 1996). In nine chapters organized chronologically, the book spans the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and covers a range of issues related to science in the colonial and national periods of Spanish and Portuguese America. Topics include, for example, herbal medicine in the sixteenth century, Jesuit science teachings in the eighteenth century, public health in the nineteenth century, etc.