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
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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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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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 57. 'Medical Genetics: Development of Ethical Dimensions in Clinical Practice and Research'
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2016Reference: GC/253/A/57Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars- Books
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The ethics of vivisection.
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.Date: [1882?]- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0000641 - C0000690
Date: 1997-1998Reference: WT/B/11/1/16Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Cultural heritage ethics : between theory and practice / edited by Constantine Sandis.
Date: [2014], ©2014- Books
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The ethics of experimentation upon living animals / by Stephen Smith Burt.
Burt, Stephen Smith, 1850-1932.Date: 1891