Stories
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Fraught fertility and making royal babies
Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.
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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.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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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.
Catalogue
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Infant mortality rates for colonial Queensland as an indicator of the health of a European tropical settlement / by M. John Thearle.
Thearle, M. John (Michael John)Date: 1991
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Child care; Infant Mortality rate 1851-1901
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Infant mortality: comparison of infant deaths by season of the year, with the highest death-rate between July and September. Colour lithograph, 1922.
Langstein, Leopold, 1876-1933.Date: [1922]Reference: 4923iPart of: Atlas der Hygiene des Säuglings und Kleinkindes- Books
Infant mortality and its causes : with an appendix on the trend of maternal mortality rates in the United States / by Robert Morse Woodbury.
Woodbury, Robert Morse, 1889-Date: 1926- Books
Mortality statistics, 1911 : general death rates, specific and standardized death rates, infant and child mortality, causes of death.
Date: 1913