Handbook of the Historiography of Latin American Studies on the Life Sciences and Medicine

lt;p>Barahona studied biology and performed postgraduate studies on the history of science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She stayed at Harvard University for a year with Professor Everett Mendelsohn. She undertook postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Irvine, with Francisco J. Ayala. A pioneer in the historical and philosophical studies of science since 1980, she founded the area of Social Studies of Science and Technology in the School of Sciences. She has focused on the history and philosophy of evolution, genetics, and human heredity and medicine. More recently, her interests have focused on medical genetics, population genetics and cytogenetics, on the impact of nuclear physics in the development of radiobiology and genetics in Mexico during the Cold War, and on genetics and agriculture in post-revolutionary Mexico, all of these within the framework of transnational science. She has been President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology; and council member of the Division of History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. She has served as member of the editorial boards of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Biological Theory, Science & Education, Almagest, and Journal of the History of Biology. She has been recently acknowledged as a Regular Member of the International Academy for the History of Science. She received the 2014 National University Award (Premio Universidad Nacional 2014), the highest recognition that UNAM gives to professors who have had a distinguished career. 

Introduction.- Natural History and Evolution.- Agriculture.- Medicine, Genetics and Radiation.- Race Studies and Science Policy.