Patrick Steptoe

Patrick Christopher Steptoe ( born June 9, 1913 in Witney, England; † 21 March 1988, Canterbury ) was a British gynecologist and a pioneer in the field of artificial procreation. Steptoe developed together with the physiologist Robert Edwards, in vitro fertilization.

Life

Patrick Steptoe received his training at King's College and St. George's Hospital Medical School in London. After the Second World War he studied obstetrics. In 1951 he began working in Oldham General Hospital. From Raoul Palmer Steptoe learned laparoscopy and published in 1967 the book Laparoscopy in Gynaecology. Due to this publication examined Robert Edwards of the University of Cambridge in touch with Patrick Steptoe.

1969 Steptoe received a degree of Western Connecticut State University.

Services

1969 Steptoe became head of the Clinic for Reproductive Medicine in Oldham. With the help of laparoscopy he took infertile women who had volunteered, ova. These women saw it as their only Möglichkeitfür pregnancy. Robert Edwards and his assistant Jean Purdy experimented with the cultivation and fertilization of the eggs. The embryos were then transferred back from Steptoe into the uterine cavity.

In 1978 she had the first success with the birth of Louise Joy Brown. Although the experiments reaped much criticism, it had become possible in other clinics that perform artificial insemination. Due to the ever increasing demand founded Steptoe and Edwards 1980, the Bourne Hall Clinic in Cambridgeshire. Steptoe was up to his death, Medical Director of this clinic.

Publications

• A Matter of Life. How the first " test tube baby " what Conceived and Born. Together with Robert Edwards. Morrow, New York 1980.

• Reproductive medicine
• Gynecologist, Obstetrician
• Physician ( 20th century )
• Briton
• English
• Born in 1913
• Died in 1988
• Man