Stories
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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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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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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
Catalogue
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Infant care.
Date: 1945- Books
Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.
Date: 2010
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Robinson's "patent" barley : the safest & best diluent for cows' milk : directions for making barley water for infants / Keen, Robinson & Co., Ltd.
Keen, Robinson & Co.Date: [1905?]
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Rules for the general management of infants / recommended by the Obstetrical Society of London.
Obstetrical Society of London.Date: 1885
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Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr.
Date: 1889