The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present
- ISBN-10
- 0801852285
- ISBN-13
- 9780801852282
- Series
- The Empty Cradle
- Category
- Childlessness
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Authors
- Wanda Ronner, Margaret S. Marsh
Description
So-called ovarian transplantations, performed in the early twentieth century, foreshadowed the modern practice of egg donation, and the first experiments in human in vitro fertilization date back to the 1930s. Marsh and Ronner also tell the little-known story of free and low-cost clinics in the urban North where low-income women were treated for infertility beginning in the nineteenth century.
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