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331 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780822346050
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2010
Description
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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331 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780822346050
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 01 February 2010
Description
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,...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings