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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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.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
- Books
A short history of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics / Ronald E. Batt.
Batt, Ronald E.Date: 1996- Books
Obstetrics and gynecology : a history and iconography / Harold Speert.
Speert, Harold, 1915-Date: 1994- Books
Obstetrics and gynecology in America : a history / Harold Speert.
Speert, Harold, 1915-Date: [1980], ©1980- Books
Obstetrics and gynecology : a history and iconography / Harold Speert.
Speert, Harold, 1915-Date: [2004], ©2004- Books
Obstetrics in Mexico prior to 1600 / by Nathan van Patten.
Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-1956Date: 1932