A tale of fertile minds and the politics of fertilityIn the compelling new novel Menachem's Seed, Carl Djerassi moves beyond the familiar worlds of laboratory and home to investigate the tribal culture of the international science community. The novel's backdrop is a series of conferences, based on the Nobel Prize -- winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, where jet-setting scientists gather to discuss the global implications of their discoveries.In this setting a man and a woman meet and become lovers. ...
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A tale of fertile minds and the politics of fertilityIn the compelling new novel Menachem's Seed, Carl Djerassi moves beyond the familiar worlds of laboratory and home to investigate the tribal culture of the international science community. The novel's backdrop is a series of conferences, based on the Nobel Prize -- winning Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, where jet-setting scientists gather to discuss the global implications of their discoveries.In this setting a man and a woman meet and become lovers. Menachem Dvir, a fiftyish Israeli nuclear engineer, is a married man rendered sterile by his exposure to radiation; Melanie Laidlaw, the American director of a foundation supporting research in reproductive biology, is the childless widow of a prominent scientist. Now in her late thirties, Laidlaw concocts a scheme to steal her lover's sperm in order to determine whether it is suitable for ICSI -- a revolutionary development of the early 1990s involving the injection of a single sperm into an egg for the treatment of male infertility and fully documented in this novel. What happens next is pure Djerassi -- an unpredictable and thrilling page-turner.Menachem's Seed is the third installment in the renowned chemist's groundbreaking science-in-fiction tetralogy, novels that give those of us who are not scientists an enlightening look at the culture and behavior of scientists. Djerassi deals with ethically explosive situations and a woman's command of her own reproductivity with his trademark wit and skill, opening eyes about academic politics, scientific grantsmanship, geopolitical concerns, and science itself.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed/dated by the author on the first free endpaper to radioshow host Alan Furley. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Essentially as new except for remainder mark on bottom of page block. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 216 p. Audience: General/trade. By the late author of 'Cantor's Dilemma' and 'Marx, Deceased'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First Edition / First Printing as identified with "1" in the full number line. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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New in New jacket. University of Georgia Press, 1997. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket. Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. 0.0.
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