| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : maps |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-317) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Proquivemex.
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Proquivemex |
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Proquivemex fast |
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects -- Mexico
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Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana)
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Paullinia.
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Diosgenin.
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Drug Industry -- history
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Paullinia
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Dioscorea
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Diosgenin
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Socioeconomic Factors
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Paullinia
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Diosgenin
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Barbasco (Dioscorea mexicana)
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects
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Steroidhormon
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Pharmazeutische Technologie
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Dioscorea mexicana
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Heilpflanzenanbau
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico |
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Mexico
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Mexiko
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822391968 |
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0822391961 |
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0822345870 |
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9780822345879 |
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9786613036346 |
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661303634X |
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