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.
- Presents an annotated, verbatim transcript of the first public lecture describing the development of IVF, ensuring this fascinating piece of history is accessible to a wider audience in Edwards and Steptoe's own words
- Includes a transcript of the reminiscences of audience members at the original lecture in 1979, conveying detailed insight into the perspectives of how the information was understood, evaluated and interpreted by contemporaries of Edwards and Steptoe
- Provides a significant amount of new historical material including images and newspaper articles that have not been published previously
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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.
- Presents an annotated, verbatim transcript of the first public lecture describing the development of IVF, ensuring this fascinating piece of history is accessible to a wider audience in Edwards and Steptoe's own words
- Includes a transcript of the reminiscences of audience members at the original lecture in 1979, conveying detailed insight into the perspectives of how the information was understood, evaluated and interpreted by contemporaries of Edwards and Steptoe
- Provides a significant amount of new historical material including images and newspaper articles that have not been published previously
