UID:
almafu_9959677650402883
Format:
1 online resource (348 p.)
ISBN:
9786613036346
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9781283036344
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1283036347
,
9780822391968
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0822391961
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822346050
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822346052
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822345879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822345870
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822391968
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391968
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822391968
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391968
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822391968
