ArticleReproductive biomedicine & society online2015
The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. I. Introduction, materials and methods.
Article in Reproductive biomedicine & society online, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story.Medical history · 2025Article
- Species Choice and Model Use: Reviving Research on Human Development.Journal of the history of biology · 2024Article
- Honouring 'Patient 38' - a mother of all IVF mothers?Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2019Article
- The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. V. The role of Jean Purdy reassessed.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2015Article
- The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. II. The treatment cycles and their outcomes.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2015Article
- The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. VI. Sources of support and patterns of expenditure.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2015Article
- The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. IV. Ethical aspects.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2015Article
- The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969-1978. III. Variations in procedures.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
In this introductory paper, we describe the primary source material studied in this Symposium, namely a set of 21 notebooks and 571 pages of loose sheets and scraps of paper, which, on cross-referencing, have allowed us to reconstruct the sequence, timing and numbers of the laparoscopic cycles planned, attempted and undertaken between 9 January 1969 and 1 August 1978 by Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy in Oldham, UK, as well as to identify most of the patients involved. In addition, we describe the background to the five papers that follow, and the secondary sources and recorded interviews, which have provided useful ancillary material.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.