Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

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Illustrated
2010
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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.

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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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 346
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 25 Mar 2010
ISBN 10: 0822346052
ISBN 13: 9780822346050

Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

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$39.73

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