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Each has come to the Bourn Hall clinic to make a final stand against a cruel and unyielding enemy: infertility. They have come from around the globe to be treated by the world-renowned team of Obstetrician Patrick Steptoe and Reproductive Physiologist Robert Edwards, the men responsible for the birth of the world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978. Many of the patients have spent more than a decade trying to conceive a child, undergoing tests and surgery and taking fertility drugs. Most have waited more than a year just to be admitted to the clinic. Some...
...variations on the original technique are multiplying almost as fast as the test-tube population. Already it is possible for Reproductive Endocrinologist Martin Quigley of the Cleveland Clinic to speak of "oldfashioned IVF" (in which a woman's eggs are removed, fertilized with her husband's sperm and then placed in her uterus). "The modern way," he notes, "mixes and matches donors and recipients" (see chart page 49). Thus a woman's egg may be fertilized with a donor's sperm, or a donor's egg may be fertilized with the husband's sperm, or, in yet another scenario...
...apple of his glowing mother's eye, but Nastassja Kinski's black-haired baby has the looks of the actress's Egyptian lover, Ibrahim Moussa, 37. Delivered by caesarean section in a Rome clinic three weeks ago, Aljosha Nakzynski will soon travel with his mother to join Moussa in Monte Carlo, where the talent agent and film producer has just switched careers and is learning the ropes as an international representative for the Bulgari jewelry company...
...modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power and knowledge directly imply one another" and that modern society seeks ever greater control through greater knowledge of individuals...
...hypnosis and biofeedback have "earned respectable places in the pain-clinic arsenal," while chiropractors get lumped "outside standard medicine" with herbal treatments and faith healing. Thanks to my chiropractor, I am virtually pain-free today because he knew where to look when "medical doctors" failed me. Barbara J. Knill Lakewood, Ohio...