“…This article examines how the British press represented Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in the story of the birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Brown. …”
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“…His meeting with Patrick Steptoe, the details of which are re-examined, increased the significance for Edwards of infertility as an outcome of IVF. …”
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“…In this paper I pay tribute to four named women and 280 unidentified women patients for their essential roles in supporting Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe during the pioneering early days of IVF. …”
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“…In this introductory paper, we describe the primary source material studied in this Symposium, namely a set of 21 notebooks and 571 pages of loose sheets and scraps of paper, which, on cross-referencing, have allowed us to reconstruct the sequence, timing and numbers of the laparoscopic cycles planned, attempted and undertaken between 9 January 1969 and 1 August 1978 by Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy in Oldham, UK, as well as to identify most of the patients involved. …”
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“…Specific data are re-examined from the recently published, anonymized database of medical records from the Oldham period of research conducted by Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and their team of assistants between 1969 and 1978. …”
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“…I will consider how he went about this by focusing on the programme’s visual presentation of Louise Brown, Peter Williams’ aims in making the film and his sympathetic relationship with the ‘pioneers’ of IVF, gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and physiologist Robert Edwards. I will conclude with a discussion of the political implications of this film and how it contributed to the normalisation of IVF at a pivotal moment in its history.…”
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“…Robert Edwards and Dr. Patrick Steptoe.(1)) In Japan, the first IVF-ET birth was reported in 1983 by Prof. …”
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