[Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek.  ].

Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.

Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.

The birth of Adonis. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.

Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 9e. tableau, Des secondines ou arriere-faix / École départementale de l'Ain.

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Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

<p>"To be awake, aware, and to participate in childbirth has become the battle cry of a determined group of young parents - much to the discomfort of the majority of obstetricians, nurses, and hospital administrators who cherish the good old "routine." The reasons for our present-day routine date back to the turn of the century when hospital delivery replaced home delivery. The transfer of childbirth from home to hospital corresponded to a medical need but was bought at a price. The healthy pregnant woman became a patient, a creature carrying a uterus out of which a fetus had to be removed under sterile precautions."-- Introduction.</p>

176 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22cm

Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

243 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

<p>This is the first in a six-part series which uses cutting edge computer graphics and rare footage to show how the body fights for survival against the odds of trauma, illness and accident. This part focuses on the trauma of  birth whether it be a natural birth or a birth tinged with danger. We follow four births. One is straightforward, one is complicated by the baby's suffocation by the umbilical cord during a caesarian section, another is life-threatening when the baby in the womb has inhaled his own faeces and has to be rushed to Great Ormond Street Hospital for emergency treatment. The last is a boy who has developed a tumour at the base of his spine while in the womb. The tumour has grown too large for him to be delivered vaginally and we see him delivered by cesarian section and follow his surgical treatment afterwards. Throughout we are shown animated graphics of what the body is doing to try to ensure the survival of the child after birth.</p>

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Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

Fight for life. Part 1, Birth.

Educacion prenatal para el parto indoloro / obra del Equipo Médico de Estudios Sicofisicos de Analgesia Obstetrica de Bogota.

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Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

Fight for life. Part 1, Birth.

Educacion prenatal para el parto indoloro / obra del Equipo Médico de Estudios Sicofisicos de Analgesia Obstetrica de Bogota.

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