Notes on the Contributions of the LASHST to the Development of the Historiography of Science in Latin America

The text follows the performance of the Latin American Society for the History of Science and Technology (LASHST) in the 1980s and analyzes its contributions to the integration and professionalization of the community of Latin American science historians. It also deals with the theoretical and methodological debates that it implemented, and that contributed to the consolidation of the institutionalization of the History of scientific and technical activities in Latin American countries and the implementation of contextualized approaches.