ArticleMedical history2019
Looking into the Test Tube: The Birth of IVF on British Television.
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- Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Ray of Hope for Infertility.ACS omega · 2025Review
- Foretelling the Future: Preimplantation Genetic Testing and the Coming of Polygenic Embryo Screening.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Impact of embryo transfer strategies on children health outcomes: a retrospective national cohort study in Taiwan.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Article
- Human cloning as reproductive means in future: a qualitative thematic study of underpinning values.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Revolutionizing the female reproductive system research using microfluidic chip platform.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2023Review
- Comparison of Treatment Outcomes among Sibling Oocytes Using Different Culture Systems-Conventional IVF versus INVOcell Device-And Evaluation of INVOcell User Satisfaction: The INVOcIVF Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Qur'anic Views on Human Cloning (I): Doctrinal and Theological Evidences.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2021Article
- Reprint: Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2020Article
- Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2020Article
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Abstract
The birth of Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube baby', has come to signify the moment at which technologically assisted human reproduction became a re ality. This was a highly mediated and visible reality, as this article explores through the example of a British television documentary about Louise Brown broadcast when she was just six weeks old, 'To Mrs Brown… A Daughter' (Thames Television, 1978). In the article, I discuss the programme alongside data from an interview with its producer, Peter Williams. Williams sought to convince the public that IVF was morally acceptable and to cultivate sympathy for the infertile through this film. I will consider how he went about this by focusing on the programme's visual presentation of Louise Brown, Peter Williams' aims in making the film and his sympathetic relationship with the 'pioneers' of IVF, gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and physiologist Robert Edwards. I will conclude with a discussion of the political implications of this film and how it contributed to the normalisation of IVF at a pivotal moment in its history.
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