Roger Gosden is a British and American scientist whose career began as a research student and fellow in Cambridge, England, supervised by Robert Edwards. After a Population Council fellowship at Duke University, he moved to Edinburgh Medical School in 1976 where he worked for 18 years, subsequently becoming a professor and research director at Leeds and McGill Universities, and the Howard & Georgeanna Jones professor of reproductive medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 2004, he moved to Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, joining on the faculty his wife Lucinda Veeck, the embryologist for America's first IVF baby. They live in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he is a writer, naturalist, and visiting scholar at William & Mary.
"""A man who had the courage to be an iconoclast for the purpose of safe-guarding humanity."" New York Times (1935) ""This is not a textbook but an arresting account of medicine and society in the not too distant past."" Howard W. Jones, Jr., M.D., Johns Hopkins and Eastern Virginia Medical Schools (2013) ""In 1935, Morris' book was a best-seller; this revision from Gosden and Walker (Morris' granddaughter) could easily do the same ... Far more of a human and social portrait than a medical text, this reissue fills the prescription for fascinating reading."" Kirkus (September 16, 2014) ""Robert Morris's story is that of a scientist, humanist, and nature lover. His sense of honor, along with his sense of humor, shines through on each page of this highly entertaining and informative book."" Amazon Verified Purchaser"