Jungle Laboratories - Gabriela Soto Laveaga - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822346050 - December 23, 2009
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Gabriela Soto Laveaga
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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.

352 pages, 26 illustrations, 1 figure

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Released December 23, 2009
ISBN13 9780822346050
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 352
Dimensions 155 × 234 × 22 mm   ·   532 g
Language English  

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