Abstract

This paper focuses on geneticists Salvador Armendares's and Rubén Lisker's studies from the 1960s to the 1980s, to explore how their work fits into the post-1945 human biological studies, and also how the populations they studied, child and indigenous, can be considered laboratories of knowledge production. This paper describes how populations were considered for different purposes: scientific inquiry, standardization of medical practices, and production or application of medicines. Through the narrative of the different trajectories and collaborations between Armendares and Lisker, this paper also attempts to show the contact of their scientific practices, which brought cytogenetics and population genetics together at the local and global levels from a transnational perspective.

Highlights

  • Ana BarahonaCiências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.26, n.1, jan.-mar. 2019, p.245264

  • Aborda o trabalho dos geneticistas Salvador Armendares e Rubén Lisker, entre 1960 e 1980, para analisar como se insere nos estudos biológicos humanos do pós-1945, e demonstra como as populações estudadas por eles, a infantil e a indígena, podem ser consideradas laboratórios de produção de conhecimento

  • Motulsky in Seattle from 1965 to 1966. Their long-term research projects and different trajectories were connected at a time when Mexican researchers were consolidating the emerging model of human genetics that had been reconfigured after World War II on an international level

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Ana Barahona

Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, v.26, n.1, jan.-mar. 2019, p.245264

Genetic characterization of indigenous populations and the work of Rubén Lisker
Karyotyping and the work of Salvador Armendares
Entangled histories and the social life of human genetics
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