Dschungellabore: Mexikanische Bauern, nationale Projekte und die Herstellung der Pille

Author/Contributor(s):	Soto Laveaga, Gabriela
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	12/23/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.