Nancy Leys Stepan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 469406 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy Leys Stepan |
| PRENOMES | Nancy Leys |
| SOBRENOME | Stepan |
| ASSINATURA | STEPAN N L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Columbia University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
"The Hour of Eugenics"
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares…
The National and the International in Public Health
This article examines the relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and Brazil in the era of Dr. Carlos Chagas, from the RF's first visit to Brazil in 1916 to the late 1920s. Chagas's discovery in 1909 of a hitherto unknown human disease (American trypanosomiasis) made him arguably the best-known medical scientist in the country. As the federal director of public health and the director as well of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, he appeare…
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness or site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropical is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the tropicalization of nature can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the tr…
Tropical Modernism
The tropical gardens and landscape designs of the Brazilian landscapist, Roberto Burle Marx, are examined in relation to the historical development of the European concept of “the tropical”. The argument is made that Burle Marx's pared down, austere, and abstract designs, which incorporate tropical plants in innovative fashion, yet make no effort to recreate or imitate a jungle experience, can be interpreted as offering a possible solution to the…
Race, Gender, Science and Citizenship
This paper argues that the history of embodiment of human racial and gendered differences must be seen as part of the history of liberal citizenship and its limits. The author suggests that a science of similarity and difference can never be a reliable guide to questions of rights. The consequences of this conclusion for our understanding of science and the gendered body are addressed in the second half of the paper, in an effort to clear the way…
Medicina tropical e saúde pública na América Latina
Ebola, levam-nos a investigar a geografia e economia poltica das doenas, bem como os estilos que a medicina tropical ganhou nesses diversos cenrios
Race and Gender
Metaphor occupies a central place in literary theory, but the role of metaphors, and of the analogies they mediate, in scientific theory is still debated. One reason for the controversy over metaphor, analogy, and models in science is the intellectually privileged status that science has traditionally enjoyed as the repository of nonmetaphorical, empirical, politically neutral, universal knowledge. During the scientific revolution of the seventee…
The Hour of Eugenics
Journal Article “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Get access “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. By Stepan Nancy Leys. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. viii + 210 pp. Notes, index. $31.50.) William E. French William E. French University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4,…
The Hour of Eugenics
Race, gender and nation in argentina
The Hour of Eugenics
Women and Natural Knowledge
Race and Gender
The Idea of Race in Science
The Interplay Between Socio-Economic Factors and Medical Science
This paper examines the reasons for the lag of almost twenty years between the publication m 1881 of the Cuban physician Carlos J. Finlay's substantially correct theory of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and its eventual confirmation by the US Reed Board in 1900. The major thesis is that political and economic factors were more important in the lag than any supposed shortcomings in Finlay's science. In the period discussed, no politica…
Beginnings of Brazilian Science
The correspondence columns of The Times have for many decades been the barometer of public opinion, the sounding board for polemics, the tocsin for warnings and protests, the disseminator of useful, and sometimes useless, information, the rallying point for worthy, worthless and lost causes, a method of announcing records, of denouncing the short-comings of others, and of stimulating amusing banter, together with other laudable functions.This col…
Beginnings of Brazilian Science
The correspondence columns of The Times have for many decades been the barometer of public opinion, the sounding board for polemics, the tocsin for warnings and protests, the disseminator of useful, and sometimes useless, information, the rallying point for worthy, worthless and lost causes, a method of announcing records, of denouncing the short-comings of others, and of stimulating amusing banter, together with other laudable functions.This col…
Initiation and Survival of Biomedical Research in a Developing Country
Initiation and Survival of Biomedical Research in a Developing Country: The Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Brazil 1900–20 NANCY STEPAN NANCY STEPAN Department of History University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXX, Issue 4, October 1975, Pages 303–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXX.4.303 Published: 01 October 1975
Race and Gender
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness or site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropical is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the tropicalization of nature can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the tr…
The Interplay Between Socio-Economic Factors and Medical Science
This paper examines the reasons for the lag of almost twenty years between the publication m 1881 of the Cuban physician Carlos J. Finlay's substantially correct theory of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and its eventual confirmation by the US Reed Board in 1900. The major thesis is that political and economic factors were more important in the lag than any supposed shortcomings in Finlay's science. In the period discussed, no politica…
Race, Gender, Science and Citizenship
This paper argues that the history of embodiment of human racial and gendered differences must be seen as part of the history of liberal citizenship and its limits. The author suggests that a science of similarity and difference can never be a reliable guide to questions of rights. The consequences of this conclusion for our understanding of science and the gendered body are addressed in the second half of the paper, in an effort to clear the way…
The National and the International in Public Health
This article examines the relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and Brazil in the era of Dr. Carlos Chagas, from the RF's first visit to Brazil in 1916 to the late 1920s. Chagas's discovery in 1909 of a hitherto unknown human disease (American trypanosomiasis) made him arguably the best-known medical scientist in the country. As the federal director of public health and the director as well of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, he appeare…
Medicina tropical e saúde pública na América Latina
Ebola, levam-nos a investigar a geografia e economia poltica das doenas, bem como os estilos que a medicina tropical ganhou nesses diversos cenrios
Race, gender and nation in argentina
Initiation and Survival of Biomedical Research in a Developing Country
Initiation and Survival of Biomedical Research in a Developing Country: The Oswaldo Cruz Institute of Brazil 1900–20 NANCY STEPAN NANCY STEPAN Department of History University of Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume XXX, Issue 4, October 1975, Pages 303–325, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/XXX.4.303 Published: 01 October 1975
Beginnings of Brazilian Science
The correspondence columns of The Times have for many decades been the barometer of public opinion, the sounding board for polemics, the tocsin for warnings and protests, the disseminator of useful, and sometimes useless, information, the rallying point for worthy, worthless and lost causes, a method of announcing records, of denouncing the short-comings of others, and of stimulating amusing banter, together with other laudable functions.This col…
The Interplay Between Socio-Economic Factors and Medical Science
This paper examines the reasons for the lag of almost twenty years between the publication m 1881 of the Cuban physician Carlos J. Finlay's substantially correct theory of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever, and its eventual confirmation by the US Reed Board in 1900. The major thesis is that political and economic factors were more important in the lag than any supposed shortcomings in Finlay's science. In the period discussed, no politica…
Beginnings of Brazilian Science
The correspondence columns of The Times have for many decades been the barometer of public opinion, the sounding board for polemics, the tocsin for warnings and protests, the disseminator of useful, and sometimes useless, information, the rallying point for worthy, worthless and lost causes, a method of announcing records, of denouncing the short-comings of others, and of stimulating amusing banter, together with other laudable functions.This col…
The Idea of Race in Science
Race and Gender
Women and Natural Knowledge
Race, gender and nation in argentina
The Hour of Eugenics
The Hour of Eugenics
Journal Article “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America Get access “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. By Stepan Nancy Leys. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. viii + 210 pp. Notes, index. $31.50.) William E. French William E. French University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4,…
The Hour of Eugenics
Race and Gender
Metaphor occupies a central place in literary theory, but the role of metaphors, and of the analogies they mediate, in scientific theory is still debated. One reason for the controversy over metaphor, analogy, and models in science is the intellectually privileged status that science has traditionally enjoyed as the repository of nonmetaphorical, empirical, politically neutral, universal knowledge. During the scientific revolution of the seventee…
Medicina tropical e saúde pública na América Latina
Ebola, levam-nos a investigar a geografia e economia poltica das doenas, bem como os estilos que a medicina tropical ganhou nesses diversos cenrios
Race, Gender, Science and Citizenship
This paper argues that the history of embodiment of human racial and gendered differences must be seen as part of the history of liberal citizenship and its limits. The author suggests that a science of similarity and difference can never be a reliable guide to questions of rights. The consequences of this conclusion for our understanding of science and the gendered body are addressed in the second half of the paper, in an effort to clear the way…
Tropical Modernism
The tropical gardens and landscape designs of the Brazilian landscapist, Roberto Burle Marx, are examined in relation to the historical development of the European concept of “the tropical”. The argument is made that Burle Marx's pared down, austere, and abstract designs, which incorporate tropical plants in innovative fashion, yet make no effort to recreate or imitate a jungle experience, can be interpreted as offering a possible solution to the…
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness or site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropical is to a great extent an American and European imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. These images are central to Nancy Leys Stepan's view that a critical examination of the tropicalization of nature can remedy some of the most persistent misrepresentations of the tr…
The National and the International in Public Health
This article examines the relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and Brazil in the era of Dr. Carlos Chagas, from the RF's first visit to Brazil in 1916 to the late 1920s. Chagas's discovery in 1909 of a hitherto unknown human disease (American trypanosomiasis) made him arguably the best-known medical scientist in the country. As the federal director of public health and the director as well of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, he appeare…
"The Hour of Eugenics"
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist ideology of Nazi Germany. Examining for the first time how eugenics was taken up by scientists and social reformers in Latin America, Nancy Leys Stepan compares…
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · History of Medicine and Tropical Health (7 obras) · Eugenics (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras)