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Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750–1960) is the first comprehensive study on the relationship between science and religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the conflict-ridden 19th century, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in the 19th century, lost part of its force with the emergence of Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement with current views that deny science the role as the driving force of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between religion and science, not the other way around.
Poisoned Eden analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century.
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Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, la obra mayor en siete tomos de Gonzalo Díaz, ha necesitado para nacer completa casi un cuarto de siglo (1980-2003). Es normal que en tan largo periodo de tiempo no haya podido recoger en las sucesivas entregas alfabéticas a filósofos que en el momento de ver luz el tomo correspondiente a la letra de sus apellidos, o no tenían, por su juventud, un número mínimo suficiente de publicaciones, o no pudieron ser incluidos en su momento a pesar de su madurez. En vista de ello, Gonzalo Díaz y María Dolores Abad, su esposa, pensaron en unos addenda que dieran cuenta de los "ausentes", más un tomo de índices destinado a organizar sistemática...