Gabriela Laveaga
Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Chapter Member: Boston SSN
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About Gabriela
Laveaga's current research focuses on agricultural technology and hunger in the twentieth century. Laveaga has also written extensively on healthcare in Mexico, medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals, and mid-century exchange between Mexico and India.
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Publications
"Marital Rape Marriage and Social Change in Global Context" (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Discusses marital rape being a global problem with documented health and policy consequences globally.
"Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill " (University Press, 2009).
Examines how Mexico was the birthplace of the pill. Explores the socio-economic repercussions of the global search for pharmaceuticals in rural villages far removed from research laboratories
"Thnking With the World: Histories of Science and Technology From the ’Out There" (with ). History and Technology An International Journal 34, no. 1 (2018): 5-10.
Discusses the introduction to co-edited volume on decentering and re-narrating histories of science and medicine.