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This book breaks new ground in the historiography of Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz by subjecting to detailed analysis the traditional belief that the ideology of the intellectual/political elite known as 'the scientists' was grounded in the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer.

Science has been one of the most powerful tools for the development of modern nations. However, since it has had a differential evolution in different cultures, its forms of transmission defined the ways in wich it was implanted in different societies. Thisbook explores, through the Mexican example, the first attempt to embody modern microbiology by a Latin American country. It shows how a combination of political, economic and personal intere...