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This man's pill : 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 honored world-wide for that acco...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Djerassi, Carl
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. An exaltation of thirty : Murasaki and company
  • 2. Genealogy and birth of the Pill
  • ch. 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?