Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Jungle Laboratories

Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345879
• ISBN-10: 0822345870
• Artikelnr.: 26552189

Autorenporträt

Gabriela Soto Laveaga is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. The Papaloapan, Poverty, and a Wild Yam 23
2. Mexican Peasants, a Foreign Chemist, and the Mexican Father of the Pill
39
3. Discovering and Gathering the New "Green Gold" 71
4. Patents, Compounds, and Steroid-Making Peasants 91
5. A Yam, Students, and a Populist Project 113
6. The State Takes Control of Barbasco: The Emergence of Proquivemex
(1974–1976) 133
7. Proquivemex and Transnational Steroid Laboratories 151
8. Barbasqueros into Mexicans 169
9. Roots of Discord 197
Epilogue 223
Appendix. General Questionnaire for Former Barbasco Pickers 237
Notes 239
Bibliography 287
Index 319