Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life
Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
Catalogue
- Books
A guide to collections relating to the history of artificial organs.
Projekt Bionics.Date: 2001- Books
Evolution of artificial organs : a festschrift to Dr. George E. Schreiner / editor, John F. Maher.
Date: 1986- Books
- Online
Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism, or animal magnetism / by Wm. Baker Fahnestock.
Fahnestock, Wm. Baker (William Baker), 1804-1886.Date: [1869]- Books
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Common sense on chronic diseases, or, A rational treatise on the mechanical cause and cure of most chronic affections of the truncal organs of both male and female systems : embracing the author's views on physical education, and the present popular system of artificial life / by E.P. Banning.
Banning, E. P. (Edmund Prior), 1810-Date: 1844- Books
Pacjenci / Jürgen Thorwald.
Thorwald, Jürgen.Date: 1995