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Imagine a pill for menopausal women that completely restores their libido. It is painless, fast-acting, and has no side-effects. In 'Libidan', a pharmaceutical researcher accidentally stumbles across precisely such a drug. Recognizing the compound's enormous market potential, he smuggles the formula out of his laboratory and resolves to commercialise it himself. However, it becomes clear that Libidan works for all women - whatever their age, character or previous reputation. Realising that what he has actually developed is the ultimate in date-rape drugs, he decides to destroy his creation. Only this is one genie that has no intention of going back in the bottle. For its wickedly hilarious black comedy situations alone, 'Libidan' is a must-read novel. But what makes it all the more exciting is that the story is no mere fictional flight of fancy. With over a decade's experience of the pharmaceutical industry, author P.J. Goddard argues that Libidan probably already exists in an R & D laboratory somewhere, and it will only a matter of time before it will be developed. (Since publication, this has been confirmed). The public and the media alike are profoundly concerned about developments in genetic engineering. As scientists continue to catalogue life's every bio-mechanism, there is widespread unease about the uses to which this information will be put. Through its utterly compelling plot, 'Libidan' illustrates the commercial and political imperatives that will divert the biotech revolution away from the eradication of disease to the management of human physiology in its non-diseased state. What shall our lives become when anger can be assuaged, or love induced, simply by opening up the medicine chest? How is society to react to a pharmacopoeia of drugs that can manipulate the body's every physical and emotional state? And, whilst the first world accessorizes its as yet unborn children with the latest in designer genes, what of the third world? What shall be its fate when the pharmaceutical multinationals abandon the development of a cure for AIDS as a hopelessly unprofitable venture? Prophetic, compassionate, yet at the same time bitingly funny, 'Libidan' offers a glimpse of the world's fast-approaching biotech future.

About the Author :
P.J.Goddard was born in Birmingham, England in 1958, the youngest of four children of a family of academics and intellectuals. After graduating with a degree in Classics in 1979, he went on to occupy a number of positions in high-technology industries, including electronics and biotechnology. A fluent Japanese speaker and an accomplished composer, he lives in Surrey with his wife and son.

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'This enjoyable book works at two levels: the first a bawdy and hilarious tale of how a run-of-the-mill scientist stumbles across a discovery that promises great power and wealth, but ultimately delivers corruption and ruin. Secondly and more seriously, it explores the commercialization of scientific insight. If you think that science is always done by cold-hearted and calculating men in white coats, then read Libidan - it is closer to the truth than you might think.' Dr Brian Johnson - Head of Biotechnology Advisory Unit, English Nature 'This is a highly entertaining novel, but it is also a sensible discussion of, amongst other things, the morality of psychopharmacology, the ethics of business, and "the way we live now". To do all this in 286 pages is a fine achievement.' Dr Richard Ashcroft - Centre for Bioethics in Medicine, Imperial College, London; 'Libidan is a challenge. As the story unfolds it improves with every chapter, and becomes more enjoyable with each twist. Here philosophy meets quantum physics, genetic engineering, and the future of mankind. Read it - you will never think or perceive the same way again.' Dr John Morrison - Journal of Human Nature; 'A clever and highly enjoyable work.' John Humphrys Broadcaster; '...provides a breathtaking glimpse of the heights to which humanity may ascend - or the depths into which it may fall - when the genome gives up it secrets.' Iain Chadband - The London Evening Standard; 'Dry, witty and head-shakingly funny. Goddard's dialogue is spot on and his characterizations are an absolute delight.' Sharon Elzing-Schulz - Curled-up-with-a-good-book.com


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780953685011
  • Publisher: Hilltop Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Hilltop Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0953685012
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Width: 156 mm


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