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
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.
- 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.
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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
- Archives and manuscripts
"Neonatal intensive care units", Medical Post, Canada, 12 May 1981
Date: 1981Reference: PP/CDW/J.5/16Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)- Books
Neonatal tetanus : a major disease of the Scottish islands / Richard A. Collacott.
Collacott, Richard A.Date: 1986- Archives and manuscripts
Neonatal morbidity and mortality in a specialised neonatal intensive care unit - is there room for prevention through maternal lifestyle modification nd ante-natal intervention?
Health Education CouncilDate: c.1980Reference: SA/HEC/B/34/101Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Books
Neonatal bioethics : the moral challenges of medical innovation / John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow.
Lantos, John D.Date: 2008- Archives and manuscripts
Summary of Fost's contribution to the Report on Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality, and other NCT papers
Date: 1980-1981Reference: SA/NCT/B/1/7/5/3Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)