ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine Louise Erdrich’s short story “Saint Marie (1934)” excerpted from her novel Love Medicine. The narrative, told from the perspective of Marie Lazarre, a young woman of mixed Chippewa Native American and “white” Anglo-American heritage, details the events of her time at the Sacred Heart Convent under the strict tutelage of Sister Leopolda where Marie undergoes sev...

On 20 June 2012, the media announced the death of Lesley Brown, aged 64 years, the world’s first ‘test-tube baby mother’. During her reproductive years, Lesley suffered from blocked Fallopian tubes, the exact problem that IVF was designed to bypass. She and her husband had to travel across southern England (from Bristol to Cambridge) to meet Robert Edwards and his physician partner, Patrick Ste...

The birth of Louise Brown, the fi rst human who was born on 25 July 1978 after the application of assisted reproduction techniques hallmarks the advent of the era of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the human [ 1 ]. The fi rst in vitro fertilization (IVF) cases, including that of Louise Brown, were performed to treat female tubal infertility. Subsequently, the demand for assisted repro...

Introduction: Sound Terrains of South Moravia The connection between musical sounds and nature has a long intellectual and popular history in Europe. My purpose here is to investigate this relationship as it has played out in South Moravian traditional music. In this exploration, I am interested in understanding the significance of ‘nature’ and soundscape as they structure Moravia as a coherent...

This article is all about a dream ‘to create a test tube baby’ that came true after nearly three decades of persistence, patience and hard work. It highlights in chronological order the obstacles that R. G. Edwards had to overcome starting from procuring the oocytes, from maturing the oocyes, from fertilizing them in vitro and in transferring the developed embryos into the mother. All along Pat...

Since the birth of first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in 1978, researchers and clinicians have sought ways to improve pregnancy outcomes through embryo selection. In 1990s, blastomere biopsy fluorescence situ hybridization (FISH) were developed human embryos for assessment aneuploidy translocations. Limitations number chromosomes that could be assayed with FISH lead development comparative genomic (...

Six evidential sources are examined to investigate how Edwards and Steptoe applied ethical standards to their research leading to the birth of Louise Brown: (i) Their own contemporary writings from 1970 onwards. (ii) Archival evidence from the British Medical Association (BMA), the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), and correspondence between Edwards and the Ford Foundat...

The role of Jean Purdy in the work leading to the birth of Louise Brown is assessed. We report that Purdy: (i) recorded and organized most of the data systematically; (ii) probably spent longer working in Oldham than did Edwards; (iii) whilst there, was primarily responsible for organizing laboratory supplies, including media preparation and testing; (iv) was involved in patient care; and (v) w...

Natural scenes in tactile texture 1 2 3 Louise R. Manfredi, Hannes P. Saal, Kyler J. Brown, Mark C. Zielinski, John F. Dammann III, Vicky S. 4 Polashock, and Sliman J. Bensmaia 5 6 7 Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 8 Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 9 Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Ros...

*Corresponding author: Jillian R. Tate, Chemical Pathology, Pathology Queensland, Block 7, Level 3, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia, Phone: +61 7 36460082, Fax: +61 7 36463417, E-mail: [email protected] William A. Parsonage: Department of Cardiology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; and School of Medicine, U...