Artifacts, knowledge and scientific-educational practices of Argentinean Pharmacobotany (19th and 20th centuries). New perspectives on the historical collections of the Pharmacobotanical Museum "Juan A. Domínguez" of the University of Buenos Aires.

Abstract

This paper presents research advances of the postdoctoral project "Artifacts, knowledge and scientific-educational practices: the case of the teaching of Argentine pharmacobotany (1900-1940)" started in the Chair and Museum of Pharmacobotany of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires. Its object of study is the material culture of science in relation to the scientific-educational practices and the circulation of knowledge of botany applied to pharmacy and medicine within the framework of creation of new spaces for scientific training and research at the University of Buenos Aires. This paper will analyze this interrelation through historical documents, specialized books and scientific artifacts of the time that make up the current scientific heritage of the Pharmacobotany Museum. The historical collections of this Museum have a high degree of interest as primary sources, both for institutional history, as well as for the history of science and Argentinean scientific education of the University of Buenos Aires.