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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.
Reproductive ageing affects both individuals and wider society, and
obstetricians and gynaecologists are witness to the impact of
reproductive ageing and to some of the fears and misapprehensions
of the general public. This book raises awareness of societal
trends and their implications. The wider importance of the subject
to the whole of society is emphasized by contributions from outside
the world of obstetrics and gynaecology, both within and outside
medicine. The 56th RCOG Study Group brought together a range of
experts to examine reproductive ageing. This book presents the
findings of the Study Group, with sections covering: background to
ageing and demographics basic science of reproductive ageing
pregnancy: the ageing mother and medical needs the outcomes:
children and mothers future fertility insurance: screening,
cryopreservation or egg donors? sex beyond and after fertility
fertility treatment: science and reality - the NHS and the market
the future: dreams and waking up."
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