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A Matter of Life, the Story of a Medical Breakthrough
The two British scientists responsible for the first successful "test-tube baby" recount the research work--and luck--that led to their momentous scientific achievement.
Life Before Birth
The embryologist responsible for the first successful in vitro fertilization (the child, Louise Brown, is 10 years old now) describes the promises of the latest reproductive technologies and their drawbacks and potential for abuse. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Robert G. Edwards
This volume includes a unique personal history of participation in the original research in England on human in vitro fertilization. It is neither a comprehensive analysis of the career of Dr. Robert G. Edwards, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, nor of the writer, who is a physician-scientist expert in the field of assisted reproduction. It provides a true picture of the efforts and complexity behind an area of medical progress which has led to the births of several million babies worldwide. Not just limited to discussions of IVF, the book also illustrates some of the numerous challenges to innovation in the reproductive sciences and the difficulties of moving breakthrough reproductive technologies from the laboratory into widespread medical use.
Presenting the First Test-Tube Baby
In January 1979, Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe delivered a lecture detailing the ten-year clinical and scientific research programme that led to the birth of Louise Brown, the first baby born utilising IVF. This thoroughly-researched book provides both a full annotated transcript of the lecture as well as recorded reminiscences from those who attended, detailing the contemporary understandings of the event. An essay on the lecture's historical context adds fresh insight into the biographies of Edwards and Steptoe and highlights sources from print and broadcast media that have received scant attention in earlier publications. Current and future implications of the advances in IVF since the first procedure are also explored, examining future medical and scientific possibilities as well as ethical issues that may arise. A foreword by Louise Brown herself places this remarkable leap of science in a personal context, one that so many families have since experienced themselves.
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Let There Be Life
The authorized biography of Sir Robert Edwards, a coal miner's son who pioneered in vitro fertilization for infertility, embryonic stem cell research for regenerative medicine, and the medical ethics of embryology (Nobel Prize, 2010). "Robert Edwards changed the world, bringing life, hope, and joy to millions of people. I owe him everything," Louise Brown. An improbable hero of science and a gritty Yorkshireman, he rode a roller-coaster of endeavor to the breakthrough which transformed reproductive medicine and gynecology. "Roger Gosden has done a magnificent job in producing this biography of a remarkable man. His research has provided us with much new material about Bob Edwards' life and t...
Let There Be Life
The authorized biography of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards is a compelling account of how he led a medical and social revolution by making babies in 'test tubes'. Prevailing against opposition when human embryology was new and sacrosanct territory, he was the champion of women and men with infertility, and now millions owe their existence to assisted reproductive technologies. An improbable hero of science, he was a coal miner's son and a gritty Yorkshireman who rode a roller coaster of endeavour to a breakthrough for which he was rewarded with a Nobel Prize and knighthood. After Louise Brown was born, he became an entrepreneurial clinic director and publisher, but, alas, he never received so much acclaim for stem cell science and screening for heritable diseases.
