| #1256468 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2009-12-23 | 2009-12-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.87 x6.13l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A masterful work by an established scholar|By Customer|Professor Soto-Laveaga successfully marries studies that, at first glance, appear to have little to do with each other. Yet, she convinces us that the means by which Mexican peasants hunted, processed, and sold tubers was not only scientific, but integral to the development of economically viable synthetic hormones. She ra||
“[T]his is an interesting and important book. For Mexicanists, it makes a|much-needed contribution to studies of post-1940 rural Mexico and of Echeverría’s era in particular. It will earn attention from regional scholars interested in t
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico’s role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gab...
You easily download any file type for your device.Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill | Gabriela Soto Laveaga. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
