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This man's pill : reflections on the 50th birthday of the pill
- Author
- Djerassi, Carl.
- Title
- This man's pill : reflections on the 50th birthday of the pill / Carl Djerassi.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Description
- viii, 308 p. : ill.
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Contents
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- 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?
- Subject headings
- Djerassi, Carl,--1923- Oral contraceptives--History. Oral contraceptives--Anecdotes. Chemists--Biography. Oral contraceptives--Social aspects--History.
- Medical subjects
- Drug Approval--Personal Narratives. Research--Personal Narratives.
- ISBN
- 0198508727 (alk. paper)