Edwards Robert Steptoe Patrick (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

252 pag. 20 cm. MEDICINA.

1980 1ªEd. 252pp Fotografías b/n 8ºM(20x13) Rústica con solapillas Buen estado .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. 188 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. A spot of black marker on the tail edges. Bound in red hardcovers with silver titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Black dustjacket in very good condition with white and blue titles. Light wear around the edges. NF/VG. Book.…

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8vo. 188 pp. 8 pages of photo illustrations, 3 text drawings. Quarter-white publisher's cloth over light-blue boards, gilt lettering on spine (offset ghost sunning of lettering from d.j. on front cover, offset toning from old adhesive for affixing jacket flaps to pastedowns), w/ d.j. cover art photo by Marjory Dressler (couple minor closed tears at foot of spine, slight chipping), still a VG-/VG copy, from the libraries of Nedra Carlson (1936-2026), noted cytogeneticist and embryologist, and important IVF embryologist, and her husband Elof Axel Carlson (1931-2025), noted geneticist, historian of science, and fierce opponent of eugenics, w/ ownership markings on ffep. Second printing of this groundbreaking work detailing the efforts of Nobel Price-winner Robert Edwards and ob/gyn Patrick Steptoe in their first "test-tube baby" efforts which significantly advanced the treatment and efforts of overcoming infertility to millions of couples. Announcements July 27, 1978 of the birth of Louise Brown from in-vitro fertilization, resulted from his early efforts to fertilize eggs, first reported in the scientific journal, Nature, Feb. 16, 1969, and methods developed with ob/gyn Steptoe, who at the time was a pioneering laparoscopic surgeon at the hospital in Oldham. Surprisingly uncommon title.…