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  1. The “Controversial Cundurango Cure”: Medical professionalization and the global circulation of drugs.Elisa Sevilla & Ana Sevilla - 2020 - Science in Context 33 (4):423-440.
    ArgumentThis article examines the medical and political discussions regarding a controversial medicinal bark from Ecuador – cundurango – that was actively sponsored by the Ecuadorian government as a new botanical cure for cancer in the late nineteenth century United States and elsewhere. The article focuses on the commercial and diplomatic interests behind the public discussion and advertising techniques of this drug. It argues that diverse elements – including the struggle for positioning scientific societies and the disapproval of the capacities of (...)
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