Research Catalog

Title

Sex in an age of technological reproduction : ICSI and Taboos / Carl Djerassi.

Author

Djerassi, Carl

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xi, 115 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Summary

"Two of the most startling developments in contemporary science have radically disrupted the historical connection between sex and reproduction: in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) - an assisted reproductive technique that directly injects a single sperm into an egg. The word play ICSI - designed for classroom readings - presents, in the format of a contentious talk-show dialogue, the science of direct-injection fertilization and the ethical issues connected with it. A DVD included in the book provides video of the ICSI injection process as viewed through a microscope, to be used in performances of the ICSI one-act dialogue. Taboos, a full-length play, turns the screws on characters that reflect a polarized America. Two couples - lesbian partners and a conservative husband and wife struggling with infertility - must make choices in a drama that examines the disjunction of sexual reproduction and the physical act of sex."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

ICSI

Alternative Title

• ICSI
• Taboos.

Subject

• Drama
• Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous
• Fertilization in Vitro
• Ethics, Medical
• Reproductive Techniques
• Human reproductive technology > Drama
• Medical ethics > Drama
• Fertilization in vitro > Drama
• Artificial insemination, Human > Drama

Genre/Form

• CD-ROMs.
• Drama
• Drama.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Microsoft PowerPoint ; QuickTime or similar ; CD-ROM drive.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ICSI : a pedagogic wordplay for two voices with audiovisuals -- Taboos : a play in two acts.

ISBN

• 9780299227906 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299227901 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780299227944 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0299227944 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008010993

OCLC

• 222249166
• SCSB-10755528

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library