Jungle laboratories : Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soto Laveaga, Gabriela, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Proquivemex.
Proquivemex
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects > Mexico.
Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana)
Paullinia.
Diosgenin.
Drug Industry > history
Paullinia
Dioscorea
Diosgenin
Socioeconomic Factors
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect social > Mexique.
Paullinias.
Diosgénine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects
Steroidhormon
Pharmazeutische Technologie
Dioscorea mexicana
Heilpflanzenanbau
Mexico
Mexiko
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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