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Jungle Laboratories

Mexican Peasants, National Projects, And The Making Of The Pill

by Gabriela Soto Laveaga
language: english
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, December of 2009 ‧
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In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass produce synthetic steroid hormones. This book features the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco.

Jungle Laboratories

Mexican Peasants, National Projects, And The Making Of The Pill

by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Property Description
ISBN: 9780822346050
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December of 2009
Language: English
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 352
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Medicine > Pharmacology
Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Sociology
EAN: 9780822346050