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God of Sperm tells the remarkable story of Dr Cappy Miles Rothman the son of notorious gangster Norman Roughhouse Rothman who went on to become a trailblazer in the field of reproductive medicine

Rothman started the California Cryobank one of the worlds largest repositories of reproductive genetic material and cordblood stem cells Among other achievements Rothman also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures postmortem sperm retrieval techniques and was one of the first practitioners of andrology a specialty dealing with male reproductive biology and medicine

How Cappy Rothman went from Mafia scion and manabouttown during the postwar Miami BeachHavana era of gangster chic to one of the most consequential figures in modern medicine is an epic onlyinAmerica tale and also a fine reminder of the broad horizons and wild possibilities life in the US can offer