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‘The men who made the breakthrough’: How the British press represented Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in 1978

机译:“取得突破的人”:1978年英国媒体如何代表Patrick Steptoe和Robert Edwards

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This article examines how the British press represented Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in the story of the birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Brown. In 1978, the British press represented the birth of Louise Brown as both a success and a source of hope. The main pairs of protagonists in this story were Steptoe and Edwards and Lesley and John Brown, who metonymically represented British science and infertile couples, respectively. In the dominant ‘success’ narrative of the birth of Louise Brown as depicted in the British press in 1978, Edwards and Steptoe seemed to embody ‘British’ values of industriousness, perseverance, altruism, ingenuity and teamwork. Thus, their success was simultaneously a British success. With Louise Brown’s birth, in-vitro fertilization came to stand for the potential happiness of infertile people and a bright future for British science and industry.
机译:本文探讨了英国媒体如何在第一个“试管婴儿”路易丝·布朗的出生故事中代表帕特里克·斯特普托和罗伯特·爱德华兹。 1978年,英国媒体将路易丝·布朗(Louise Brown)的诞生视为成功和希望之源。这个故事中的主要人物是斯特普托(Steptoe)和爱德华兹(Edwards),莱斯利(Lesley)和约翰·布朗(John Brown),他们分别代名词代表英国科学界和不育夫妇。在1978年英国媒体对路易丝·布朗(Louise Brown)的诞辰小说所作的占主导地位的“成功”叙述中,爱德华兹和斯特普托似乎体现了勤奋,毅力,无私,独断和团队合作的“英国”价值观。因此,他们的成功同时是英国的成功。路易丝·布朗(Louise Brown)出生后,体外受精就代表了不育人口的潜在幸福以及英国科学和工业的光明前景。

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