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Previous Volume 341:133-134 July 8, 1999 Number 2

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By Carl Djerassi. 276 pp. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1998. $24.95. ISBN 0-8203-2032-3.
By Michael Stein. 176 pp. Sag Harbor, N.Y., Permanent Press, 1999. $22.00. ISBN 1-57962-022-1.

The recent publication of superb fiction by contemporary physicians — Richard Selzer, Ethan Canin, Susan Mates, and Ferrol Sams, among others — suggests that physicians are granted, by their medicine, a privileged view of human events, and that doctors graced with literary gifts can, indeed, give the world news that is unavailable to other writers. Two new novels written by physicians support this idea, although in extravagantly different ways.

NO, by Carl Djerassi, is a romp of excess, a set of vaguely related plot lines that converge on insatiability and the drive to control biologic and social events. The margin . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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