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Father Of The Birth Control Pill, Developer Of Antihistamines, Founder Of Biomedical Companies, Teacher Of World-class Chemists, Best-selling Novelist ... As The Scientist Notes, Few Can Match Carl Djerassi's Juggling Act For Success And Longevity. Here Is Djerassi's Remarkable Autobiography. Blending Vivid Descriptions Of The Lucrative World Of Drug Development With Controversial Chapters On The Politics Of Contraception And Poignant Disclosures About His Personal. Life, This Book Tells The Story Of One Of The Most Productive And Socially Conscious Chemists Working Today. The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, And Degas' Horse Tells How Djerassi, While Still In His Twenties And Leading A Small Team In An Obscure Laboratory In Mexico City, Used A Locally Grown Yam First To Synthesize Cortisone And Then, Within Twelve Months, To Create The First Steroid Effective As A Birth Control Pill. Dubbed For This Latter Work The Father Of The Pill, A Title. He Often Shares With Gregory Pincus And John Rock, Who Performed The Biological And Clinical Studies To Confirm The Pill's Efficacy In Humans, Djerassi Has Spent A Lifetime Thinking And Rethinking, Discussing And Debating, The Social, Economic, And Biolo

Author

Djerassi, Carl, author

Publisher

Basic Books, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465057597

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Memoir

Rating

3.97 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14