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
Autor principal: Soto Laveaga, Gabriela, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Proquivemex.
Proquivemex
Heilpflanzenanbau
Dioscorea mexicana
Pharmazeutische Technologie
Steroidhormon
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects.
Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana)
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
Diosgenine.
Paullinias.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect social > Mexique.
Socioeconomic Factors
Diosgenin
Dioscorea
Paullinia
Drug Industry > history
Diosgenin.
Paullinia.
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects > Mexico.
Mexiko
Mexico.
Mexico
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (346 pages): maps
ISBN:9780822391968

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