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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soto Laveaga, Gabriela, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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