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Book Howard   Georgeanna

Download or read book Howard Georgeanna written by Howard Jones, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOWARD W. JONES, JR. (1910-2015) was one of the most charismatic and ingenious figures of his generation in American medicine. From before his World War II service as a battlefield surgeon, he was pioneering advances in surgery and gynecological oncology and endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School alongside his distinguished wife and collaborator, GEORGEANNA SEEGAR JONES, M.D. (1912-2005). After reaching the mandatory age for retirement, they moved from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, where they launched the nation's first in vitro fertilization (IVF) program for patients with infertility. Dr. Jones' humanity, longevity, and industriousness were legendary; he published three books after becoming a centenarian. This last book includes a chapter from his late wife's unpublished lectures, another chapter by his longtime assistant Nancy Garcia, and a prologue by the editors, Drs. Lucinda Veeck Gosden and Roger G. Gosden, who were his former colleagues. Includes illustrations, family memories, and short tributes to the Joneses from over a hundred friends, colleagues, and patients around the world.

Book The Pursuit of Parenthood

Download or read book The Pursuit of Parenthood written by Margaret Marsh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of Science, Medicine and Technology by the Association of American Publishers Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means—liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others—by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. In this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine.

Book In Vitro Fertilization Comes to America

Download or read book In Vitro Fertilization Comes to America written by Roger Gosden and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scourge of infertility defeated doctors and scientists down the ages. But since the breakthrough with in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) after 1980, almost every patient who hopes to have children can be helped. This book is the amazing story of how IVF came to America. It is told by Howard W. Jones, Jr., M.D. who, with his late wife Georgeanna Jones, M.D., was the American pioneer of 'test-tube babies.' For them, it was a 'retirement job' after finishing careers at Johns Hopkins University where he was an internationally-acclaimed reproductive surgeon and Georgeanna was the first director of gynecological endocrinology. That they succeeded so well against the odds late in their careers and in the teeth of opposition from right-to-life groups depended on a number of chance opportunities and the building of a 'dream-team.' Following the lead of Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards (Nobel Prize, 2010) and the birth of Louise Brown in Great Britain, they achieved the first test-tube baby in the Americas - Elizabeth Carr, born in Norfolk in 1981. IVF clinics have subsequently sprouted across the globe, and now account for over 60,000 births annually in the USA, and more than five million babies have been born worldwide. The rapid social acceptance of IVF owes a great deal to these doctors, and Howard Jones, now well past his hundredth year, still inspires researchers to improve treatment options, and debates the ethics of ARTs. When IVF was still in its infancy, the Joneses were invited to join a panel at the Vatican City to advise Pope John Paul II about IVF. They were unable to persuade that pontiff, although Howard harbors a hope that Pope Francis will eventually open his arms to the new treatment. No one has been more influential than him in propelling IVF forward in the USA, and this memoir is Howard's account of how the controversial research he steered became one of the great medical victories of our time.

Book The Statutes at Large  the United States from

Download or read book The Statutes at Large the United States from written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Craig Claiborne s Southern Cooking

Download or read book Craig Claiborne s Southern Cooking written by Craig Claiborne and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author introduces many of the three hundred dishes featured in a back-in-print cookbook that focuses exclusively on the South with comments and notes on their history, their evolution over the years, and his favorite versions.

Book United States Statutes at Large

Download or read book United States Statutes at Large written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Vitro Fertilization

Download or read book In Vitro Fertilization written by Gabor Kovacs and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating record chartering the history and pioneers of in-vitro fertilization, forty years after the birth of the first baby.

Book Current Catalog

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  • Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1442 pages

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Book Legal Conceptions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan L. Crockin
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-11
  • ISBN : 9780801893889
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Legal Conceptions written by Susan L. Crockin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a medical and a legal pioneer in the field, this book comprehensively reviews and analyzes the evolving law and policy issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies. Dr. Howard W. Jones, Jr., founder of the first in vitro fertilization program in the United States, offers medical commentary, while attorney Susan L. Crockin, author of the column "Legally Speaking" in ASRM News (the newsletter of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine), provides legal analysis. The book opens with a legal primer and timelines sketching the medical and legal milestones in the history of reproductive technology and law. Each chapter provides a case-by-case discussion of the relevant law, as well as cogent medical and legal commentary and analysis on a particular substantive area. Chapter topics deal with a vast array of issues, including artificial insemination, sperm and egg donation, traditional and gestational surrogacy, posthumous reproduction, same-sex parentage, genetics, cryopreservation and embryo litigation, discrimination and access to reproductive care, professional liability, stem cell research, and abortion. In discussing the medical and legal issues surrounding these topics, Crockin and Jones reveal what has gone right and what at times has gone terribly wrong for both the families and the professionals involved. They make clear that technological advancements have far outpaced the laws and policies in place to protect all who use them. This book makes a timely contribution to current debates over the legal and policy issues raised by the highly publicized birth of octuplets in California and the embryo legislation activity taking place in many states. It offers information and insight to policymakers, medical and legal professionals, patients and other participants, and everyone else interested in the history and future direction of the field.

Book Social Register  Buffalo

Download or read book Social Register Buffalo written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Dilatory domiciles"; for some volumes, some of these updates are issued separately as supplements.

Book A Textbook of In Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproduction

Download or read book A Textbook of In Vitro Fertilization and Assisted Reproduction written by Peter R. Brinsden and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an enlarged, updated, color-illustrated new edition of the definitive clinical reference on in vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction. It contains 37 chapters by top-ranked specialists from around the world covering every aspect of investigation and therapeutic options as taught and practiced at the world-famous Bourn Hall Clinic. Large format, double-column pages. Includes bibliographic references, procedures, protocols and information sheets, and index.

Book Extracts from Journals Kept by George Howard  Earl of Carlisle

Download or read book Extracts from Journals Kept by George Howard Earl of Carlisle written by George William Frederick Howard Earl of Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion in Medicine

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  • Author : John B. Dawson
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2011-12-20
  • ISBN : 1465368329
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Religion in Medicine written by John B. Dawson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this treatise is: 1) to draw attention to the presence of situations arising within medical practice in which religious beliefs play an important role. 2) to emphasize the fact that most students and many doctors are given insufficient training in such matters, which are of considerable import to a fair percentage of the public. 3) to provide a few examples of what is meant by a religio-medical situation, and a bibliography for further exploration by the initiate in such matters. The stimulus to think along these lines stemmed from the examples set me by my erstwhile ‘chiefs', Sir James Patterson-Ross, Professor Sir E. F. Scowen and Sir Stanley Davidson. Further encouragement came while I was in Edinburgh from the Reverend Dr. H.C. Whitley of St. Giles and his brother counterparts Msgr. Quill and the Reverend A. Brysh-White. In Australia, Bishop E.H. Burgmann of Canberra gave me the benefit of his legendary experience and passed me on to Father Michael Scott of Newman College, Professor D. McCaughey of Ormond College and Mr. Ben Gurewicz in Melbourne. The Reverend Granger Westberg of the Lutheran ministry in the United States infused his enthusiasm into the venture and this, with an intellectual commentary from Professor B. Hamnett of the State University of New York, along with the constructive critique volunteered by members of the local Baha'i community, tidied up many loose ends. In respect to the actual page-by-page construction I must mention my wife and Professor G. Bolton of the University of Western Australia who turned my thoughts into reality. My gratitude to these and many other people of distinction and industry can never be satisfactorily expressed. I hope they will accept my efforts to interpret or to pass on their humane counsel as part payment.

Book Gynecology and Textuality

Download or read book Gynecology and Textuality written by Chloé Diepenbrock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Ocean of Desire

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  • Author : Anna George
  • Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
  • Release : 2009-02
  • ISBN : 9781606938218
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Ocean of Desire written by Anna George and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Blakewood loses his infant daughter Kate's hand in marriage during a game of chance to a mysterious stranger. Little does Howard know that Kate is now betrothed to his long lost wife's former beau, a man driven by revenge. On her eighteenth birthday, Kate has to make the perilous journey to the United States in the company of her faithful nursemaid to meet her future husband. On the voyage her ship is attacked by the famous pirate "The Duke" and Kate finds herself his captive. But who is he really? And, what does he want with Kate? Ocean of Desire is a stirring tale of lost love, revenge and passion set on the high seas. Anna George is a writer and successful businesswoman. This is Anna's first venture into the swashbuckling world of historical romance. She lives in Yorkshire, England with her family and various animals who reside at their home.