Stories
- Article
What Black women do when the NHS fails them
Sabrina-Maria Anderson explores misogynoir – hatred of Black women – within the NHS, and how women like her are consequently turning to other sources of medical support.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- 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.
- Article
Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
Catalogue
- Books
Childbirth at home / Marion Sousa ; foreword by Robert A. Bradley ; afterword by Lewis E. Mehl and Gail H. Peterson.
Sousa, Marion, 1941 September 11-Date: 1977- Archives and manuscripts
MSC correspondence and papers on the availability of home birth and "Changing Childbirth" report
Date: 1993-1995Reference: SA/NCT/D/5/2/2Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)- Archives and manuscripts
"Instinct Training in Childbirth"
Date: c.1970sReference: PP/KZR/H/2/8Part of: The archive of Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015)- Books
Childbirth in Japan : past, present, future / Birth International.
Date: 1990- Archives and manuscripts
NCT reports, "Availability of Home Birth" and "Home Birth in the UK"
Date: 1995-2001Reference: SA/NCT/E/3/3/2Part of: National Childbirth Trust (NCT)