Cantor's Dilemma Author:Carl Djerassi Cancer research, insect biochemistry, and cell biology are not generally considered subjects for novelists. However, when the author is also a professor of chemistry at Stanford University and is known for synthesizing the first oral contraceptive, such subjects are not just appropriate -- they're rich material for reflection. — Like his prot... more »agonist, Professor I. C. Cantor, Djerassi is a "Renaissance Man" -- scientist, musician, gourmet cook, and skillful writer of stories. His novel concerns the politics of scientific pressures -- the race to publish first, the need to replicate experiments, and the necessity for unbiased hypothesis verification.
Cantor's startling hypothesis on the etiology of cancer promise him a Nobel Prize, but issues of ambition, trust, and emotional blackmail must first be resolved. A recommended title; other novels dealing with science lack the realism Djerassi so ably provides.« less
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