Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill by Gabriela Soto Laveaga

Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

Gabriela Soto Laveaga

331 pages paperback 2009

5 editions

nonfiction history science medium-paced
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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. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives,...

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