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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.
"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 maj…
Endocrine disruptors
by Metzler, Manfred, Dörr, Helmuth G., Bosland, M. C.
fromHandbook of Environmental Chemistry
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Type: Book