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The best place for giving birth

Hospital births are now often seen as the safest option – but this was not always the case. Tania Staras tracks trends in where women gave birth, and what led to the move from home to hospital.

  • 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.

  • Long read

The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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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.

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  • PP/SHA/7/1 Clapham Maternity Hospital Christ
  • Maternity hospital, Paris: perspective view. Process print, 1913.
  • Maternity hospital, Paris: ground plan. Process print, 1913.
  • A mother with a baby; advertising the Maternity Hospital, Chicago. Colour lithograph, 1895.
  • A mother with a baby; advertising the Maternity Hospital, Chicago. Colour lithograph, 1895.
  • The Churchill Hospital, Oxford, England: the maternity unit. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • Royal Free Hospital, London: the corridor to the maternity ward. Process print, 1913.
  • Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the maternity ward. Process print, 1913.
  • The HIV (AIDS) test and your pregnancy : your questions answered / St. Mary's Hospital Maternity Department.
  • The HIV (AIDS) test and your pregnancy : your questions answered / St. Mary's Hospital Maternity Department.
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