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
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
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.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Lion Incubator in use attended by Dr. Lion, 1896
- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on proposed Incubator Eggs (Prevention of use as Food) Regulations 1965
Date: Apr-May 1965Reference: SA/SMO/L.22Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health
- Digital Images
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Incubators; child brith, 1887
- Books
Incubators for the preservation of bacteria and their contribution to the development of bacteriology through the collection of the Fundació-Museu d'Història de la Medecina de Catalunya, Barcelona / Josep Sanchez Aldeguer.
Sanchez-Aldeguer, JosepDate: 1992
- Ephemera
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HB-2D Hybridisation incubator / Techne (Cambridge) Limited.
Techne (Cambridge) Limited.Date: [1993]