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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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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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.
Catalogue
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Report on the examination of one hundred brains of feeble-minded children / by A.W. Wilmarth.
Wilmarth, Alfred W.Date: [1890]- Books
Degrees of mental handicap / report of the Working Party on Standards of Ascertainment for Scottish Schoolchildren.
Great Britain. Scottish Education Department. Working Party on Standards of Ascertainment for Scottish Schoolchildren.Date: 1961- Books
The young retarded child : medical aspects of care / edited by Margaret I. Griffiths.
Date: 1973- Books
Clinical psychology / by Louis E. Bisch.
Bisch, Louis E. (Louis Edward), 1885-Date: 1925- Books
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Notes relating to school apparatus.
Date: [188?]