Karyotyping and population genetics in cold war Mexico: Armendares’s and lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s

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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.

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Barahona, A. (2019). Karyotyping and population genetics in cold war Mexico: Armendares’s and lisker’s characterization of child and indigenous populations, 1960s-1980s. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 26(1), 245–264. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702019000100014

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