November 15, 2010
Blurb
"I just saw a married couple who don't want to tell their daughter that she was created from another man's sperm," a psychologist who worked with infertile couples recently told me. "I don't know what to do. What do you think?"
The recent award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards recognizes important research that led to the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). But the work that he, along with his late colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, conducted at Cambridge University raises profound questions that, with the evolving modern family, many doctors, patients and potential parents continue to struggle with decades later.
Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-klitzman-md/in-vitro-fertilization-...
The recent award of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Edwards recognizes important research that led to the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). But the work that he, along with his late colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, conducted at Cambridge University raises profound questions that, with the evolving modern family, many doctors, patients and potential parents continue to struggle with decades later.
Read more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-klitzman-md/in-vitro-fertilization-...