Interrogating Development

Gisela Mateos (PhD Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona 2001) is Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her main research interests are the history of 20th-century physics and scientific and technological development projects  in Mexico and Latin America during the Cold War. Her focus is on how technical assistance programs have changed scientific and medical practices in the so-called Third World.Edna Suárez-Díaz (PhD National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, 1996) is Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Between 2005 and 2008 she was Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. Her research has focused on the history and historical epistemology of twentieth century life sciences. Currently, her work focuses on technical assistance related to biomedical and health practices.

• 1 Introduction: Grounding Development in Mexico.- Part I The Hopes and Wrath of Development.- 2 Processing Revolution: Oilseeds and Agricultural Industrialization in the Mexican Pacific, 1940–1960.- 3 The National Corn Commission: Biopolitics, Green Revolution, and State-Making in Jalisco, México, 1947–1961.- 4 Feeding Development: Rural Nutritional Projects in Mexico Between the 1940s and 1960s.- 5 Labor Roads or the Myth of Sisyphus (1970–1976).- 6 Reinventing Development: The Patent Controversy of the 1960s and 1970s.- Part II Conglomerates of Experts.- 7 The Necessary Triangle: Experts and Technical Assistance for the Modern Hospital in Mexico City, 1940–1960.- 8 A “Most Ambitious Project”: Promises of Water and Atoms in the Mexico-US Border (1963–1968).- 9 Technical Assistance and Productive Laboratories:Toyoda de México and Siderúrgica Nacional, 1954–1980.- 10 U.S. Advisors and Models in the Development of Mexico During the Cold War, ca. 1940–1980.