Let There Be Life: An Intimate Portrait of Robert Edwards and His IVF Revolution - Softcover

Gosden, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997599049 ISBN 13: 9780997599046

Publisher: Jamestowne Bookworks, 2019

Synopsis

The authorized biography of IVF pioneer Robert Edwards is a compelling account of how he led a medical and social revolution by making babies in ‘test-tubes’. Prevailing against immense opposition when human embryology was new and sacrosanct territory, he was the champion of people with infertility, and now millions more owe their existence to assisted reproductive technologies. An improbable hero of science, he was the son of a coal miner who almost failed his first university degree, but the gritty Yorkshireman rode a roller-coaster of emotions and obstacles to a breakthrough for which he was rewarded with a Nobel Prize and knighthood. After the first IVF babies, he became an entrepreneurial clinic director and publisher, but, alas, never received so much acclaim for the foundations of embryo stem cell science and embryo screening for heritable diseases.

About this title

From the Author:

Robert Edwards' family invited the author to write this authorized biography. Roger Gosden knew Edwards for forty years and spent 2017-2019 in further research of his subject.

From the Inside Flap:

Jamestowne Bookworks, Williamsburg, VirginiaŠ2019 by Jamestowne BookworksAll Rights Reserved. Published 2019ISBN 978-0-9975990-4-6 (print edition)ISBN 978-0-9975990-5-3 (digital edition)Let There Be Life by Roger GosdenBiography and memoir of a scientistHistory of In Vitro FertilisationSocial History of 20th century BritainLaw and Ethics of Fertility Treatment and Embryo ResearchGallery of Images

About this edition

• Publisher: Jamestowne Bookworks
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0997599049
• ISBN 13: 9780997599046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392