The Genius Factory天才工厂
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作者： David Plotz 著
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出版时间： 2006-10-1字数：版次： 1页数： 262印刷时间： 2006/10/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780812970524包装： 平装内容简介
Building on a series of articles he wrote for Slate, Plotz investigates the legacy of the Repository for Germinal Choice, a California sperm bank that was to have been stocked exclusively by Nobel laureates. Very few donors in the institution's 19-year run really had Nobels, and the one publicly acknowledged laureate was William Shockley, a notorious racist. Plotz has fun poking holes in the eugenic vision of the repository's founder, self-made millionaire Robert Graham, and his ambition to collect "the Godiva of sperm." More captivating, however, is Plotz's recounting of the efforts of the women who visited the repository to discover the identities of their donors. As he gets to know a cluster of families and donors, Plotz reaches insightful conclusions about the unforeseen emotional consequences of artificial insemination. The "reunions" his research helps bring about include the elderly scientist who adopts a grandfatherly role in a young girl's life and a teenager who takes his wife and infant son along to meet his "dad" and finds him sharing a house with Florida drug dealers. The attempt to breed genius babies may have an aura of surreal humor, but the sensitive narration always reminds us of the real lives affected—and created—through this oddball utopian scheme. B&w photos. Agent, Rafe Sagalyn. (On sale June 7) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
目录
AUTHORtS NOTE
PROLOGUE: FEBRUARY 2001
CHAPTER 1 THE GENETIC PASSION OF ROBERT GRAHAM
CHAPTER 2 MANUFACTURING GENIUS
CHAPTER 3 THE SEMEN DETECTIVE
CHAPTER 4 DONOR CORAL
CHAPTER 5 DONOR WHITE
CHAPTER 6 BIRTH OF A NOBEL SPERM BANK CELEBRITY
CHAPTER 7 A FAMILY OF BASTARDS ,.
CHAPTER B THE SECRET OF DONOR WHITE
CHAPTER 9 MY SHORT, SCARY CAREER AS A SPERM DONOR
CHAPTER 10 WHO IS THE REAL DONOR CORAL?
CHAPTER 11 DONOR WHITE FINDS HIS JOY
CHAPTER 12 A FATHER, FOR BETTER OR WORSE
CHAPTER 13 SPERMICIDE