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Jungle laboratories, Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill, Gabriela Soto Laveaga

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Jungle laboratories, Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill, Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-317) and index

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jungle laboratories

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Sub title

Mexican peasants, national projects, and the making of the Pill

Table Of Contents

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

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