Robert G. Edwards: A Personal Viewpoint (Volume 1)

This volume includes a unique personal history of participation in the original research in England on human in vitro fertilization. It is neither a comprehensive analysis of the career of Dr. Robert G. Edwards, the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, nor of the writer, who is a physician-scientist expert in the field of assisted reproduction. It provides a true picture of the efforts and complexity behind an area of medical progress which has led to the births of several million babies worldwide. Not just limited to discussions of IVF, the book also illustrates some of the numerous challenges to innovation in the reproductive sciences and the difficulties of moving breakthrough reproductive technologies from the laboratory into widespread medical use.

Dr. Joseph D. Schulman is an American pioneer in the fields of human reproduction and genetics. He had the unique privilege of working with Drs. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe in England in the mid-1970s on development of the original methods of human in vitro fertilization (IVF). Dr. Schulman has published over 200 original scientific papers, was former head of the Interinstitute Training Program in Medical Genetics at the National Institutes of Health, and has been a professor at several medical schools. In 1984, he founded the Genetics & IVF Institute which has successfully assisted tens of thousands of patients with reproductive or genetic illnesses.