EBOOK This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill - Carl Djerassi

EBOOK This Man's Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill
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Autor: Carl Djerassi

 Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191593017
EAN: C11B46C0EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 322
Data wydania: 2001
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Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill
October 15, 1951 marks the birthday of one of the key episodes in 20th century social history: the first            synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive in a small laboratory in Mexico City - an event that triggered the         development of the Pill. Carl Djerassi has been honoured worldwide for that accomplishment, which ultimately          changed the life of women and the nature of human reproduction in ways that were not foreseeable. Onthe            50th anniversary of this pivotal event, Djerassi weaves a compelling personal narrative full of self-reflection            and occasional humour on the impact this invention has had on the world at large and on him personally. He          credits the Pillwith radically altering his academic career at Stanford University to become one of the few            American chemists writing novels and plays. This Man's Pill presents a forcefully revisionist account of the            early history of the Pill, debunking many of the journalistic and romantic accounts of its scientific          origin. Djerassi does not shrink from exploring why we have no Pill for men or why Japan only approved thePill            in 1999 (together with Viagra). Emphasizing that development of the Pill occurred during the post-War            period of technological euphoria, he believes that it could not be repeated in today's climate. Would the          sexual revolution of the 1960s or the impendingseparation of sex ("e;in bed"e;) and fertilization ("e;under            the microscope"e;) still have happened? This Man's Pill answers such questions while providing a uniquely            authoritative account of a discovery that changed the world.

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