Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xiii, 331 p.))
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Karten
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0822391961
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0822346052
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9780822345879
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9780822391968
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9780822346050
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-317) and index
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Contents; 2 Mexican Peasants, a Foreign Chemist, and the Mexican Father of the Pill; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Papaloapan, Poverty, and a Wild Yam; 3 Discovering and Gathering the New "Green Gold"; 4 Patents, Compounds, and Steroid-Making Peasants; 5 A Yam, Students, and a Populist Project; 6 The State Takes Control of Barbasco: The Emergence of Proquivemex (1974-1976); 7 Proquivemex and Transnational Steroid Laboratories; 8 Barbasqueros into Mexicans; 9 Root of Discord; Epilogue; Appendix. General Questionnaire for Former Barbasco Pickers; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Soto Laveaga, Gabriela, 1971 - Jungle laboratories Durham [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN 9780822345879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822346050
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mexiko
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Geschichte 1940-1999
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Pharmazeutische Technologie
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Steroidhormon
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Heilpflanzenanbau
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Dioscorea mexicana
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822391968?locatt=mode:legacy
