Jungle laboratories
Subtitle: Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill
By: Gabriela Soto Laveaga.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780822345879; 9780822346050
Subjects: Proquivemex; Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects -- Mexico; Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Papaloapan, poverty, and a wild yam; title: Mexican peasants, a foreign chemist, and the Mexican father of the Pill; title: Discovering and gathering the new "green gold"; title: Patents, compounds, and steroid-making peasants; title: A yam, students, and a populist project; title: The state takes control of barbasco : the emergence of Proquivemex (1974/1976); title: Proquivemex and transnational steroid laboratories; title: Barbasqueros into Mexicans; title: Root of discord.