Carl Djerassi was responsible for the chemical synthesis of the first steroid oral contraceptive: he is widely referred to as the 'father of the Pill'. In This Man's Pill, Djerassi reflects on the impact the invention of the oral contraceptive pill has had on the world, and on Djerassi himself.

Emphasizing that development of the Pill occurred during the post-War period of technological euphoria, he believes that it could not be repeated in today's climate. Would the sexual revolution of the 1960s or the impending separation of sex ("in bed") and fertilization ("under the microscope") still have happened? This Man's Pill answers such questions while providing a uniquely authoritative account of a discovery that changed the world.

1. An exaltation of thirty: Murasaki and company
2. Genealogy and birth of the pill
3. Bitter pills
4. The view from Tokyo
5. Sex and Immortality
6. From the pill to the PC
7. Science-in-fiction is not science fiction. Is it autobiography?
8. Behind the scrim of fiction
9. The softer chemist
10. The pill and Paul Klee
11. Science on stage
12. What if?