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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-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proquivemex.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects--Mexico.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shows how wild yams, once considered useless, briefly became indispensable to the global pharmaceutical industry (as a source of synthetic steroid hormones) and to the peasants who gathered them.
- 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:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036346
- 9781283036344
- 1283036347
- 9780822391968
- 0822391961
- OCLC:
- 504585036
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