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
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Rate
Date: Jan 1943-May 1946Reference: SA/EUG/N.49Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Rate. Vol. IV
Date: Jun 1938-May 1939Reference: SA/EUG/N.48Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Rate. Vol. I.
Date: Jan 1935-Mar 1937Reference: SA/EUG/N.45Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Rate. Vol. II
Date: Mar-Dec 1937Reference: SA/EUG/N.46Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Rate. Vol. III
Date: Dec 1937-Jun 1938Reference: SA/EUG/N.47Part of: Eugenics Society