Critical Reviews on Latin American Research | 24 The emerging ield of science policy studies in Latin America will certainly welcome the current contribution by Adriana Feld, historian and Argentinean National Scientiic and Technical Research Council (CONICET) researcher at the Science, Technology and Society Research Center (Universidad Maimónides) in Buenos Aires. While previous similar works combined the history of Argentinian science with a discussion of science policy (Hurtado 2010) or provided analysis focused on speciic periods or authors (Albornoz and Gordon 2011; Oteiza 1992), Feld’s contribution Science and policy/ politics in Argentina (1943-1983) is the irst book-length historical analysis of the construction of science and technology policy in Argentina. The book spans from the beginning of public support for science in the 1940s to the end of military rule in the early 1980s. The book is organized in four chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The irst section deals with the rise of science 1 Current position funded by UNAM’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program. policy during the 1940s and 1950s and the coniguration of two political and institutional approaches. Chapter II describes the creation of the CONICET in 1958 and the stakeholders and institutional ideologies involved in its irst years of existence. In turn, the third chapter focuses on dissecting the movement called Latin American Thought on Science, Technology and Development (LATSTD) and assessing the originality of their contributions. Finally, the last chapter analyzes the 1970s and the early 1980s when a new bureaucracy for science policy emerged in the context of a military dictatorship. The conclusion sums up the main arguments and includes some remarks on Argentina’s current science policy. The book opens with the discussion of science during the Peronist regime (1943-1955) and describes the diferent stakeholders and ideologies that surrounded the institutionalization of science policy in Argentina. On one hand, Juan Perón’s government favored a Adriana Feld (2015) Ciencia y política(s) en Argentina (1943-1983) Bernal: Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 522 p. Reviewed by Federico Vasen Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1