Sex in an Age of Technological Reproduction: ICSI and Taboos [With DVD]

by Carl Djerassi

Book Overview

Carl Djerassi is one of "the fathers of the Pill"--he was awarded the National Medal of Science for the first synthesis of a steroid oral contraceptive--and has had a prolific additional career as a writer of fiction, plays, and dialogues about science. In these two plays, ICSI and Taboos, he dramatizes the social transformations and contested viewpoints created by advances in reproductive science and technology. Two of the most startling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299227944
• ISBN13: 9780299227944
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"