Pioneers and Victims: The Birth and Death of Argentina's First Molecular Biology Laboratory [Book Review]

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Minerva 41 (1):47-69 (2003)
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The first Latin American molecularbiology laboratory came onto the scientificscene in Argentina in early 1957, only to bedismantled in 1962, following a ministerialchange. This paper explores the social,political, institutional, and cognitiveinteractions present in this short experience,and assesses their importance in understandingthe development of a new scientific field in a`peripheral context'

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