Female IVF pioneer Jean Purdy long went unrecognized, archival letters show:
Among the doctor’s archives is a letter he wrote to Oldham Health Authority before the plaque was unveiled, stressing that Purdy
The health authority, however, opted to leave Purdy’s name off the plaque, which celebrated the 1978 birth of—the first baby born via IVF, which involves combining sperm and egg in a lab and implanting the embryo back into the mother’s body. Madelin Evans, an archivist who catalogued Edwards’ papers, told the Times that a number of factors likely contributed to Purdy’s “lack of recognition”: her sex, the tendency at the time to minimize nurses’ work, and the fact that embryology was still an emerging field in the 1970s and 80s.
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