The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution

by Wanda Ronner and Margaret Marsh

Book Overview

As Louise Brown--the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization--celebrates her 30th birthday, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner tell the fascinating story of the man who first showed that human in vitro fertilization was possible.

John Rock spent his career studying human reproduction. The first researcher to fertilize a human egg in vitro in the 1940s, he became the nation's leading figure in the treatment of infertility, his clinic serving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890012
• ISBN13: 9780801890017
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher