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This Man's Pill - Carl Djerassi

This Man's Pill

Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
322 Seiten
2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-860695-6 (ISBN)
CHF 57,55 inkl. MwSt
Carl Djerassi was responsible for the chemical synthesis of the first steroid oral contraceptive: he is widely referred to as the 'father of the Pill'. In This Man's Pill, Djerassi reflects on the impact the invention of the oral contraceptive pill has had on the world, and on Djerassi himself.
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. On the 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 Pill with 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 the Pill 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 impending separation of sex ("in bed") and fertilization ("under the microscope") still have happened? This Man's Pill answers such questions while providing a uniquely authoritative account of a discovery that changed the world.

Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry at Stanford University, is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive - "the Pill") and the National Medal of Technology (for promoting new approaches to insect control). A member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as many foreign academies, Djerassi has received 18 honorary doctorates together with numerous other honours, such as the first Wolf Prize in Chemistry, the first Award for the Industrial Application of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Chemical Society's highest award, the Priestley Medal.

1. An exaltation of thirty: Murasaki and company ; 2. Genealogy and birth of the pill ; 3. Bitter pills ; 4. The view from Tokyo ; 5. Sex and Immortality ; 6. From the pill to the PC ; 7. Science-in-fiction is not science fiction. Is it autobiography? ; 8. Behind the scrim of fiction ; 9. The softer chemist ; 10. The pill and Paul Klee ; 11. Science on stage ; 12. What if?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.4.2003
Reihe/Serie Popular Science
Zusatzinfo 2 figures
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 196 mm
Gewicht 338 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-860695-8 / 0198606958
ISBN-13 978-0-19-860695-6 / 9780198606956
Zustand Neuware
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