Foreword / by Preface -- Introduction : Beyond imported magic / Latin American Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Society. Who invented Brazil? / Innovation and inclusive development in the South : a critical perspective / Working with care : narratives of invisible women scientists practicing forensic genetics in Colombia / Ontological politics and Latin American local knowledges / Technology in an expanded field : a review of history of technology scholarship on Latin America in selected English-language journals / Local and Global Networks of Innovation.

South Atlantic crossings : fingerprints, science, and the state in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Argentina / Tropical assemblage : the Soviet Large Panel in Cuba / Balancing design : OLPC engineers and ICT translations at the periphery / Translating magic : the charisma of One Laptop per Child's XO laptop in Paraguay / Nanoscience and nanotechnology : how an emerging area on the scientific agenda of the core countries has been adopted and transformed in Latin America / Latin America as laboratory : the camera and the Yale Peruvian Expeditions / Science, Technology, and Latin American Politics. Bottling atomic energy : technology, politics, and the state in Peronist Argentina / Peaceful atoms in Mexico^^

Neoliberalism as political technology : expertise, energy, and democracy in Chile / Creole interferences : a conflict over biodiversity and ownership in the south of Brazil / The juridical hospital : patient-citizen-consumers claiming the right to health in Brazilian courts