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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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2001
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| Edición: | 1st published 2001 |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004280309708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
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?
