Bøger af Carl Djerassi

Presenting two plays, ""ICSI"" and ""Taboos"", this title dramatizes the social transformations and contested viewpoints created by advances in reproductive science and technology. It includes a DVD that provides video of the ""ICSI"" injection process as viewed through a microscope.

Examines the questions: What can science do for the theatre? And what can the theatre do for science? which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. This book includes texts of the author's two plays, "Insufficiency" and "Phallacy", to offer concrete examples of plays dealing with actual (rather than invented) chemistry.

These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists.

What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. This work focuses on chemical and political revolutions, as well as the Nobel Prize, which was awarded for the 100th time in 2001.