Presenting the first test-tube baby : the Edwards and Steptoe Lecture of 1979 / Fiona Kisby Littleton, Susan Bewley, James Owen Drife.

  • Littleton, Fiona Kisby
Date:
2022
  • Books

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Description

"This book is for historians, doctors, media students, IVF patients and their children. It showcases a lecture that was the first public explication of how conception 'in vitro' was first achieved by Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe in 1978, a treatment that has given rise to 8 million babies worldwide."-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Physical description

xiii, 221 pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (colour, black & white) ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

"The Edwards & Steptoe Lecture of 1979"--From cover.

Contents

From Oldham and Cambridge to the rest of the world the contexts and contents of the lecture, 1978-80 / Fiona Kisby Littleton -- The lecture, 1979 : pregnancies following implantation of human embryos grown in culture / Fiona Kisby Littleton and Susan Bewley -- The professional reminiscence, 2019 : retired fellows look back / Fiona Kisby Littleton, Susan Bewley and James Owen Drife -- The local reminiscence : an Oldham journalist remembers / Janice Barker -- The legacy : 2019 and beyond / Peter Braude and Martin Johnson.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    TPH.AH
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ISBN

  • 9781009211031
  • 100921103X