Research Catalog

Title

Test tube revolution : the early history of IVF / John Leeton.

Author

Leeton, John

Publication

• Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, [2013]
• ©2013.

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Details

Description

xiii, 90 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

In Test Tube Revolution, Professor Leeton tells the story of the early days of IVF, his friend and fellow IVF pioneer Emeritus Professor Carl Wood, and the struggle of the research teams in Australia and the UK who were behind this momentous medical development.

Subject

• Wood, Carl
• Physicians
• History, 20th Century
• Embryo Transfer > history
• Fertilization in Vitro > history
• Fertilization in vitro, Human > Australia > History
• Fertilization in vitro, Human > Great Britain > History
• Human reproductive technology > Australia > History
• Human reproductive technology > Great Britain > History
• Human embryo > History. > Australia
• Human embryo > History. > Great Britain
• Wood, Carl
• Fertilization in Vitro > history > Australia
• Embryo Transfer > history > Australia
• History, 20th Century > Australia
• United Kingdom
• Australia

Genre/Form

History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1 The Rival Teams 1 -- Chapter 2 Alternative Treatments: Artificial Tubes 7 -- Chapter 3 Nine Frustrating Years 11 -- Chapter 4 The Boy from Jerilderie 21 -- Chapter 5 Success at Last 25 -- Chapter 6 Nine Normal Pregnancies 31 -- Chapter 7 The Legislators' Dilemma 35 -- Chapter 8 Ethics and Frozen Embryos 44 -- Chapter 9 Opposition and Guidelines 50 -- Chapter 10 The Problems of Ambiguous Legislation 56 -- Chapter 11 The GIFT of Life 65 -- Chapter 12 The Struggle for Surrogacy 68 -- Chapter 13 The End of the Beginning 75.

ISBN

• 9781922235060
• 1922235067

LCCN

^^2013371118

OCLC

868971746

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library