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Menachem's seed
- Title
- Menachem's seed / a novel by Carl Djerassi.
- Author
- Djerassi, Carl.
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3554.J47 M46 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 196 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- In this compelling new novel 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 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.
- ISBN
- 0820319252 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97012749
- OCLC
- ocm36573833
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries