THE BABY DOCTORS

Delacorte, New York, 1990, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-385-29938-9.  Hard cover, 213 pages.  Near fine; touch of soil on top edge; binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear, a few short tears.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘On May 31, 1990, the nation’s newspapers announced a remarkable advance in the world of fetal surgery:  Doctors at the University of California in San Francisco had successfully performed lifesaving major surgery on a fetus and delivered a healthy baby seven weeks later. … the surgery at UCSF is the culmination of experimental work of a small cadre of physicians around the world, … This group decided then to share information and research in their related goal:  to go inside the womb itself to attempt surgeries never attempted before, surgeries that would test the limits of medical knowledge and strain against the boundaries of medical ethics.’ (from rear panel)