An Immaculate Misconception : Sex in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Another in the line of plays about science. This one is one of the few books that is about biology, and not about cancer. In this case, the author, a Nobel Prize winner for his invention of oral contraception, decides to take a look at the process known as ICSI - a method of fertility treatment that can use a single sperm injected directly into an egg. It is written without dumbing down, but the science should still be comprehensible to most people, though there may be a couple of points where there is a bit of jargon. It's an easy, quick read, and raises some interesting questions about the future of reproductive science, though it never raises the most important one, the obsession that drives us to reproduce our own genetics when show more there are already so many people the world is bursting at the seams. It never questions the need some people have for their own genetics to continue. In spite of that, it could raise those questions in the mind of the savvy reader. A decent entry. show less