Where the Domestic Meets the Global: Writing the History of Assisted Reproduction

Candice Reed was born on 23 June 1980 in Melbourne. She was conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and was the first such baby to be born in Australia. As her fortieth birthday approaches we expect to see a flurry of articles on the four decades of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in Australia. Candice Reed was born after years of experimental procedures by scientists and medical practitioners in Australia, at times collaborating and at times competing with teams in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, India, Japan and other parts of the world.