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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.

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The conditional child

Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.

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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.

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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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  • The nursling; the feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants / [Pierre Budin].
  • The nursling; the feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants / [Pierre Budin].
  • The nursling; the feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants / [Pierre Budin].
  • The nursling; the feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants / [Pierre Budin].
  • Mead's cod liver oil, fortified with percomorph liver oil... : Mead's oleum percomorphum, 50%... / Brooks & Warburton, Ltd.
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