Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- 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
Womb milk and the puzzle of the placenta
A human baby needs milk to survive – and this holds true even before it’s born. Joanna Wolfarth explores “womb milk”, as well as ancient and modern ideas about the placenta.
Catalogue
- Books
Pregnancy diagnosis tests : a review / by Alfred T. Cowie.
Cowie, A. T. (Alfred Tennant), 1916-Date: 1948- Books
- Online
On the signs of pregnancy during the earlier months of gestation; and on the existence of a new animal principle in the urine during that state / by James Stark.
Date: [1842?]- Archives and manuscripts
'Response of the megaloblastic anaemias of pregnancy to animal protein factor', with A Hargreaves, British Medical Journal, Apr 1952
Date: April 1952Reference: PP/FAK/C/3/21Part of: Foy, Henry (1900-1991), and Kondi, Athena (d.1994), Haematologists and nutrition researchers- Archives and manuscripts
Pregnancy in Humans and Cattle: Book I
Date: c1893Reference: GALTON/2/5/3/1Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Pregnancy in Humans and Cattle: Book II
Date: c1893Reference: GALTON/2/5/3/2Part of: Galton Papers