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[Robert Edwards, 2005]
No full textPhotograph of Robert Edwards standing near a large bush and a hill covered in foliage. He is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and khaki shorts
Guest Recital by Robert Edwards
Full text linkNews release announces that Robert Edwards will give a guest recital presented by the Department of Music at the University of Dayton
Robert Edwards Scammell Tractor at Stow-on-the-Wold
No full textRobert Edwards' Scammell tractor registration MHW491F Moonraker photographed May Fair, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1978
Robert Edwards Foden Flat Lorry at Stow-on-the-Wold
No full textRobert Edwards' Foden flat lorry registration VVJ269 'The Highwayman' photographed May Fair, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1978
Robert Edwards Box Trucks at Stow-on-the-Wold
No full textRobert Edwards' box trucks with 'Cheerio We Hope to Be Back Soon' sign written on the back. Photographed May Fair, Stow-on-the-Wold, 1978
Master of Science
No full textthesisGeoreferenced maps accompanying Robert Edwards Paddock\u27s thesis "Geology of the Newfoundland Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah". KMZ files can be used in Google Earth, jpg and world files can be used in GIS software
Robert Edwards: the path to IVF
No full textAbstractThe early influences on Robert Edwards’ approach to the scientific research that led to human IVF are described. His interest as a graduate student in the genetics of early mammalian development stimulated him later to investigate whether the origins of human genetic diseases such as Down, Klinefelter and Turner syndromes might be explained by events during egg maturation. This clinical problem provided the most powerful stimulus to achieve both oocyte maturation and fertilization in vitro in humans. Indeed, preimplantation genetic diagnosis was his main goal until he met Patrick Steptoe in 1968. A re-evaluation of his meeting with Steptoe suggests that initially Steptoe’s laparoscopic skill was of interest for its potential to solve the sperm capacitation problem. Steptoe’s impact on Edwards was twofold. First, Steptoe’s long-held interest in infertility raised this application of IVF higher in Edwards’ priorities. Second, Steptoe offered a long-term partnership, in which oocyte collection without in-vitro maturation was a possibility. The professional criticism generated by their work together encouraged Edwards to pursue a deliberate programme of public education about the issues raised and to challenge and develop professional bioethical thought and discourse about reproduction.The early life and career of Robert Edwards are described and re-evaluated in the light of documentary evidence. His early interest in the genetics of development provided the major motivation behind his goal of achieving IVF in humans. Through this work, he aimed to understand and hopefully to reduce the transmission of genetic disease in humans. His meeting with Patrick Steptoe, the details of which are re-examined, increased the significance for Edwards of infertility as an outcome of IVF. It also led to a creative long-term research partnership, initiated a long-term programme of public education in the UK about reproductive science and stimulated the development of bioethical thinking
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Reconstructing Robert Edwards: biography and the history of reproduction
No full textThis review assesses Roger Gosden’s authorized biography of Robert Edwards (1925–2013), the in vitro fertilization (IVF) pioneer who founded this journal. It reflects on the challenges of placing Edwards in the history of studying reproduction, especially the rise of interest in infertility. It analyses Gosden’s narrative choices and practices of reconstruction, in particular of experiences of seeing human eggs, embryos and fetuses. And it suggests that further research should explore the full spectrum of communication around Edwards with a view to illuminating the roles of scientists in transforming reproduction and to feeding back into a richer view of his life
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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