Book Review: Donors – Curious connections in donor conception?
Petra Nordqvist and Lea Gillman's latest book 'Donors: Curious Connections in Donor Conception?' is reviewed by Susan Tranfield-Thomas teacher and founder member of Daisy Network...
Susan Tranfield-Thomas
Teacher and founder member of Daisy Network
Susan Tranfield-Thomas is a Volunteer Writer for BioNews. She is a teacher and founder member of Daisy Network.
BioNews Articles by Susan Tranfield-Thomas
Podcast Review: Half of Us – The acronym episode, DCP and BIPOC
This Half of Us episode allows for a wide exploration of the problems arising from trans-racial donor conception and gives guests ample time to tell their stories...
Documentary Review: Our Father
'I walk around, and I could be related to anyone' says Jacoba Ballard, a donor-conceived adult, of her neighbourhood in Indianapolis...
TV and Video Review: Revisiting Bourn Hall and its IVF Pioneers
Such was the excitement and anticipation around the pioneering procedure of IVF and the work of embryologist Professor Sir Robert Edwards, gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and embryologist and nurse Jean Purdy, that Louise Brown's birth was treated as a sensational scientific advance in 1978…
Book Review: Fertility Issues
Fertility Issues is one of a series of educational booklets from Independence Educational Publishers, aimed at children aged over 11 in key stages 3, 4, and above, which aims to present and explore contemporary social issues in an unbiased way...
Book Review: Two-Week Wait – an IVF story
Written by Luke and Kelly Jackson, 'Two-Week Wait' is a story about IVF that anyone with experience of the treatment can identify with...
TV Review: The One
'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?' wrote Christopher Marlow in 1598. Since the ancient Greeks described the exquisite pain of instant passion through the metaphorical sting of Cupid's arrow, humans have embraced the notion of some magical alchemy that makes us fall helplessly for our one 'true' love...
TV Review: Trying
Making comedy out of the ups and downs of the adoption process is a bold move by most standards. Infertility and comedy aren't, after all, the easiest of bedfellows, and there will be no shortage of people like myself, ready to roll our eyes at the first sign of cliché and censure any attempt to create cheap laughs...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
TV Review: DNA – Series one
In times of lockdown, long shadows and shortening days, it seems counter-intuitive to turn to a new scandi-noir series for an additional helping of bleakness...
Event Review: Egg freezing — what's the deal with fertility preservation?
Billed as a 'forum for civilized disagreement', this hour-long webinar offers an opportunity to understand what egg freezing is, how and why it is accessed and what its long term implications are for the women who use it...