[The commercialization of dairy milk and the disputes over milk regulations, Buenos Aires circa 1960].

This study analyzes the process of regulating the commercialization of dairy milk in the City of Buenos Aires, focusing on ordinance no.17,342 of 1960, which imposed mandatory pasteurization of any milk sold in the city. This article concentrates on one particular stage of that process, in which a solution was reached that had been delayed by a complex set of opposing sectorial interests and expert opinions.

[The construction of cancer as an object of scientific study and sanitary problem in Argentina: discourses, experimental practices and institutional initiatives, 1903-1922].

This article analyzes the construction of cancer as a sanitary problem and an object of scientific inquiry in Argentina in the first two decades of the twentieth century. It considers the acquisition and circulation of foreign knowledge on the subject, the context in which the first experimental developments arose, the institutional initiatives promoted by the medical profession and the way in which state authorities and civil society were enlisted to further these initiatives. There is a detailed examination of the process of creating the Instituto de Medicina Experimental, a center wholly devoted to the study and treatment of cancer, which was inaugurated in 1922, symbolically ending the first phase of constructing cancer as a problem in the country.

Institutional renovation and scientific modernization: the creation of the Instituto de Investigaciones Hematológicas during the mid-1950s.

Using documentary sources, this work analyzes the creation and initial functioning of the Instituto de Investigaciones Hematológicas (Institute of Hematological Research) of the National Academy of Medicine (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in the context of the scientific modernization initiated within the country during the mid-1950s. Particular attention is paid to the generation of material bases and institutional and cultural mechanisms for the development of scientific research and of clinical practices guided by procedures and techniques rooted in the basic sciences. The formation and development of a research school in the Experimental Leukemia Section of the institute is explored as a case illustrative of the effective consolidation of initiatives oriented towards the organization of a scientific center.