Presenting the First Test-Tube Baby: The Edwards and Steptoe Lecture of 1979

by Fiona Kisby Littleton, James Owen Drife, Susan Bewley

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100921103X
• ISBN13: 9781009211031
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"