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Jungle laboratories : Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill / Gabriela Soto Laveaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soto Laveaga, Gabriela, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana).
- Proquivemex.
- Drug Industry--history.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects.
- Mexico.
- Dioscorea.
- Diosgenin.
- Paullinia.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Drug Industry--history.
- Mexico.
- Dioscorea.
- Diosgenin.
- Paullinia.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 331 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- The Papaloapan, poverty, and a wild yam
- Mexican peasants, a foreign chemist, and the Mexican father of the Pill
- Discovering and gathering the new "green gold"
- Patents, compounds, and steroid-making peasants
- A yam, students, and a populist project
- The state takes control of barbasco : the emergence of Proquivemex (1974/1976)
- Proquivemex and transnational steroid laboratories
- Barbasqueros into Mexicans
- Root of discord.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822345879
- 0822345870
- 9780822346050
- 0822346052
- OCLC:
- 319501016
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