Medicine edwards robert (1 risultati)

8vo. 188 pp. 8 pages of photo illustrations, 3 text drawings. Quarter-white publisher's cloth over light-blue boards, gilt lettering on spine (offset ghost sunning of lettering from d.j. on front cover, offset toning from old adhesive for affixing jacket flaps to pastedowns), w/ d.j. cover art photo by Marjory Dressler (couple minor closed tears at foot of spine, slight chipping), still a VG-/VG copy, from the libraries of Nedra Carlson (1936-2026), noted cytogeneticist and embryologist, and important IVF embryologist, and her husband Elof Axel Carlson (1931-2025), noted geneticist, historian of science, and fierce opponent of eugenics, w/ ownership markings on ffep. Second printing of this groundbreaking work detailing the efforts of Nobel Price-winner Robert Edwards and ob/gyn Patrick Steptoe in their first "test-tube baby" efforts which significantly advanced the treatment and efforts of overcoming infertility to millions of couples. Announcements July 27, 1978 of the birth of Louise Brown from in-vitro fertilization, resulted from his early efforts to fertilize eggs, first reported in the scientific journal, Nature, Feb. 16, 1969, and methods developed with ob/gyn Steptoe, who at the time was a pioneering laparoscopic surgeon at the hospital in Oldham. Surprisingly uncommon title.…