Howard and Georgeanna Jones

Howard and Georgeanna Jones is a podcast. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published July 1983.

Dr. Howard Jones and his wife Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones helped to create the first test tube baby born in the United States. The book “Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution” showed how they never shied from controversy. Long before Dr. Howard Jones opened America’s first in vitro fertilization clinic, he was doing sex change operations at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. He was also one of the doctors who cared for Henrietta Lacks, whose immortal cancer cells are the focus of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the best-selling book by Rebecca Skloot. In the 1960s, he conducted laboratory studies of sperm and oocytes – immature eggs – with the British scientist Robert Edwards, who helped create the world’s first test tube baby, born in England in 1978. Even though Dr. Jones had grown accustomed to public rancor over his research and operations, nothing was as fierce as the American opposition to his in vitro fertilization

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