Full Description
The birth of Louise Joy Brown - the world's first baby born following in-vitro fertilization - heralded a medical revolution. Forty years later, many thousands of babies are born each year following IVF. Assisted reproduction is a global industry with a multi-billion dollar turnover. It is a complex mix of science, clinical management, bioethics, and commercial imperatives. Many of the pioneers of IVF are still with us and have a fascinating tale to tell. Here, they relate the story of the development of IVF and related technologies in a way that will prove invaluable to future generations of practitioners seeking to understand the genesis of the specialty. This is not an academic history: rather it takes an informal and anecdotal approach; informing and entertaining for generations of past, present and future medical and scientific specialists of IVF, alongside the millions of parents, who celebrated the successes of IVF treatment worldwide.
Contents
1. A brief outline of the history of human in-vitro fertilization John D. Biggers and Catherine Racowsky; 2. The track to assisted reproduction: from animal to human in-vitro fertilization Jacques Cohen; 3. The American roots of in-vitro fertilization Frederick Naftolin, Jennifer Blakemore and David L. Keefe; 4. The story of Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards, Jean Purdy, and Bourn Hall Clinic Peter R. Brinsden; 5. Professional hostility confronting Edwards, Steptoe, and Purdy in their pioneering work on in-vitro fertilization Martin H. Johnson; 6. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Australia Alex Lopata and Gabor Kovacs; 7. The Joneses and the Jones Institute Charles C. Coddington, III and Sergio C. Oehninger; 8. The development of in-vitro fertilization in North America after the Joneses Matthew Connell and Alan H. DeCherney; 9. The Brussels story and the eureka moment of intracytoplasmic sperm injection Andre Van Steirteghem; 10. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Austria Wilfried Feichtinger; 11. The development of in-vitro fertilization in France Rene F. Frydman; 12. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Italy Luca Gianaroli, Serena Sgargi, Maria Cristina Magli and Anna Pia Ferraretti; 13. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Scandinavia Lars Hamberger, Torbjorn Hillensjo and Matts Wikland; 14. The Development of In-Vitro Fertilization in Spain Antonio Pellicer; 15. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Greece, Germany, and The Netherlands Basil C. Tarlatzis, Klaus Diedrich and Bart Fauser; 16. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Israel Zion Ben-Rafael; 17. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Latin America Fernando Zegers-Hochschild; 18. The development of in-vitro fertilization in India Rina Agrawal and Elizabeth Burt; 19. The development of in-vitro fertilization in China Daimin Wei, Jianfeng Wang, Yingying Qin and Zi-Jiang Chen; 20. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Africa Willem Ombelet; 21. The development of in-vitro fertilization in Russia Vladislav Korsak and Anatoly Nikitin; 22. The application of in-vitro fertilization in the management of the infertile male David M. de Kretser; 23. The development of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for monogenic disease and chromosome inbalance Leeanda Wilton; 24. The development of embryo, oocyte, and ovarian tissue cryopreservation Debra A. Gook and David H. Edgar; 25. The development of ovarian stimulation for in-vitro fertilization Colin M. Howles; 26. The development of microsurgery for male and female infertility Sherman J. Silber; 27. The application of embryonic stem cells for in-vitro fertilization Ariff Bongso; 28. The regulation and legislation of in-vitro fertilization Louis Waller and Sandra Dill; 29. Research on assisted reproduction families: a historical perspective Susan Golombok; 30. The commercialization of in-vitro fertilization G. David Adamson and Anthony J. Rutherford.
